During each VPS trial, we recorded the time it took for the VPS to start accepting connections after it was ordered. Sometimes, the instance provisioning was delayed by billing shenanigans: those delays are excluded from the numbers below.
All numbers below are numbers of seconds.
Provider | Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon EC2 | 15s | 10s | 25s | 3 |
Google Compute Engine | 28s | 20s | 35s | 3 |
Katapult | 30s | 30s | 30s | 1 |
Scaleway | 30s | 30s | 30s | 2 |
Hetzner | 30s | 25s | 35s | 3 |
MoonQube | 31s | 25s | 40s | 3 |
Atlantic.Net | 35s | 30s | 50s | 6 |
DigitalOcean | 41s | 40s | 45s | 3 |
Alibaba Cloud | 45s | 30s | 60s | 2 |
Amazon Lightsail | 50s | 40s | 60s | 2 |
Servervy | 50s | 50s | 50s | 1 |
Clouding.io | 51s | 35s | 110s | 12 |
ORACLE Cloud | 55s | 50s | 60s | 2 |
HostHatch | 56s | 35s | 110s | 5 |
UpCloud | 56s | 40s | 90s | 12 |
IBM Cloud | 60s | 20s | 100s | 2 |
BuyVM | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
Microsoft Azure | 63s | 50s | 75s | 3 |
Genesis Public Cloud | 68s | 40s | 180s | 12 |
Alwyzon | 70s | 40s | 120s | 7 |
A2 Hosting | 75s | 60s | 90s | 2 |
LayerStack | 76s | 60s | 80s | 5 |
Akamai | 76s | 60s | 100s | 9 |
OVHcloud US | 87s | 45s | 170s | 5 |
Evoxt | 87s | 80s | 100s | 7 |
TransIP | 90s | 60s | 120s | 4 |
EVLBOX | 90s | 90s | 90s | 1 |
Snakecraft Hosting | 110s | 100s | 120s | 2 |
Evolution Host Ltd | 122s | 60s | 180s | 12 |
Hostinger | 130s | 90s | 200s | 8 |
Hivelocity | 130s | 130s | 130s | 1 |
Vultr | 145s | 30s | 360s | 11 |
Aruba Cloud | 166s | 30s | 320s | 11 |
Cherry Servers | 167s | 90s | 220s | 7 |
RackNerd | 180s | 180s | 180s | 1 |
netcup | 180s | 180s | 180s | 2 |
IONOS | 195s | 50s | 780s | 12 |
INET.WS | 202s | 45s | 260s | 5 |
ScalaHosting | 211s | 25s | 1200s | 13 |
HostUp | 240s | 240s | 240s | 1 |
VPS2DAY | 240s | 35s | 360s | 12 |
Kamatera | 280s | 220s | 400s | 11 |
RoseHosting | 317s | 90s | 600s | 11 |
LinuxCloudVPS | 423s | 120s | 600s | 3 |
OVHcloud | 589s | 60s | 1560s | 10 |
OnetSolutions | 915s | 80s | 9000s | 12 |
Togglebox | 1521s | 150s | 12000s | 11 |
Fybe | 14380s | 60s | 28700s | 2 |
Contabo | 20977s | 240s | 219600s | 12 |