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 | 17s | 10s | 25s | 2 |
| Hetzner | 32s | 30s | 35s | 2 |
| Scaleway | 32s | 30s | 35s | 2 |
| MoonQube | 34s | 25s | 50s | 6 |
| Alibaba Cloud | 37s | 30s | 45s | 2 |
| DigitalOcean | 38s | 30s | 45s | 3 |
| Katapult | 38s | 30s | 50s | 3 |
| Atlantic.Net | 50s | 50s | 50s | 1 |
| Clouding.io | 50s | 35s | 80s | 12 |
| ORACLE Cloud | 55s | 50s | 60s | 2 |
| Microsoft Azure | 55s | 50s | 65s | 3 |
| OVHcloud US | 56s | 45s | 70s | 6 |
| Amazon Lightsail | 60s | 40s | 80s | 2 |
| IBM Cloud | 60s | 20s | 100s | 2 |
| HostHatch | 60s | 35s | 110s | 4 |
| Alwyzon | 62s | 40s | 120s | 7 |
| UpCloud | 64s | 45s | 90s | 12 |
| Genesis Public Cloud | 64s | 40s | 180s | 12 |
| LayerStack | 67s | 50s | 80s | 4 |
| Google Compute Engine | 71s | 20s | 160s | 3 |
| Linode | 72s | 60s | 90s | 9 |
| Linkdata.com | 80s | 60s | 100s | 3 |
| EVLBOX | 90s | 90s | 90s | 1 |
| A2 Hosting | 90s | 90s | 90s | 1 |
| Evoxt | 92s | 80s | 120s | 7 |
| Snakecraft Hosting | 100s | 90s | 120s | 5 |
| Hostinger | 107s | 45s | 200s | 10 |
| TransIP | 108s | 60s | 180s | 6 |
| Vultr | 118s | 70s | 360s | 11 |
| netcup | 150s | 120s | 180s | 2 |
| Evolution Host Ltd | 156s | 90s | 300s | 12 |
| Cherry Servers | 166s | 130s | 220s | 9 |
| Aruba Cloud | 170s | 60s | 320s | 12 |
| Hivelocity | 182s | 130s | 210s | 4 |
| OnetSolutions | 189s | 80s | 300s | 13 |
| VPS2DAY | 191s | 35s | 360s | 12 |
| ScalaHosting | 215s | 25s | 1200s | 13 |
| HostUp | 217s | 60s | 480s | 4 |
| INET.WS | 225s | 45s | 290s | 7 |
| VPS Mart | 240s | 240s | 240s | 1 |
| IONOS | 253s | 55s | 780s | 12 |
| Kamatera | 285s | 140s | 420s | 12 |
| RoseHosting | 288s | 90s | 600s | 11 |
| Profvds | 310s | 260s | 360s | 2 |
| BuyVM | 330s | 60s | 600s | 2 |
| OVHcloud | 425s | 45s | 1560s | 12 |
| Togglebox | 1606s | 150s | 12000s | 11 |
| Fybe | 14380s | 60s | 28700s | 2 |
| Contabo | 20292s | 240s | 219600s | 11 |