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 | Median Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| quicksrv.io | 25s | 25s | 20s | 30s | 2 |
| SprintCDN | 30s | 30s | 30s | 30s | 1 |
| Hexabyte | 31s | 30s | 20s | 40s | 7 |
| Hetzner | 32s | 32s | 25s | 40s | 2 |
| Raff | 35s | 35s | 30s | 40s | 3 |
| Scaleway | 35s | 35s | 35s | 35s | 1 |
| Amazon AWS | 36s | 32s | 20s | 60s | 4 |
| Antihost | 40s | 40s | 40s | 40s | 1 |
| Alibaba Cloud | 40s | 40s | 40s | 40s | 1 |
| Amazon Lightsail | 45s | 45s | 30s | 60s | 2 |
| Arct Cloud | 45s | 45s | 40s | 50s | 2 |
| DigitalOcean | 45s | 45s | 45s | 45s | 1 |
| my.host | 50s | 50s | 50s | 50s | 1 |
| dataforest cloud | 50s | 50s | 50s | 50s | 1 |
| Google Compute Engine | 51s | 50s | 36s | 70s | 4 |
| Togglebox | 54s | 50s | 20s | 120s | 12 |
| GS WEBSERVICES | 60s | 60s | 20s | 100s | 3 |
| VoyraCloud | 60s | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
| HostUp | 61s | 45s | 25s | 180s | 9 |
| VPSLab | 62s | 60s | 50s | 80s | 4 |
| OVHcloud US | 63s | 70s | 45s | 80s | 7 |
| ScalaHosting | 65s | 55s | 25s | 180s | 12 |
| Microsoft Azure | 66s | 60s | 40s | 100s | 3 |
| BlastVPS | 67s | 62s | 25s | 120s | 4 |
| Alwyzon | 67s | 60s | 25s | 120s | 6 |
| LIGA HOSTING | 70s | 70s | 70s | 70s | 1 |
| Vultr | 77s | 60s | 30s | 260s | 12 |
| Linode | 80s | 80s | 80s | 80s | 1 |
| UpCloud | 84s | 90s | 45s | 110s | 11 |
| ORACLE Cloud | 86s | 60s | 55s | 170s | 5 |
| Genesis Public Cloud | 86s | 72s | 30s | 170s | 12 |
| Contabo | 86s | 70s | 45s | 200s | 13 |
| Godlike.host | 87s | 90s | 35s | 120s | 5 |
| Clouding.io | 88s | 50s | 40s | 360s | 13 |
| Linkdata.com | 90s | 90s | 90s | 90s | 1 |
| MonoVM | 95s | 85s | 50s | 170s | 12 |
| RackGenius | 104s | 90s | 60s | 240s | 12 |
| TakeHost.Biz | 105s | 110s | 50s | 150s | 4 |
| HostArmada | 124s | 150s | 20s | 200s | 5 |
| Hostinger | 135s | 160s | 10s | 210s | 12 |
| netcup | 150s | 150s | 150s | 150s | 1 |
| IONOS | 151s | 140s | 46s | 360s | 12 |
| Server Optima | 152s | 160s | 35s | 240s | 12 |
| Bluehost | 154s | 120s | 50s | 400s | 5 |
| Cherry Servers | 156s | 120s | 60s | 440s | 12 |
| Nobull Networks | 167s | 180s | 90s | 240s | 7 |
| Aruba Cloud | 179s | 140s | 80s | 600s | 13 |
| Kamatera | 184s | 180s | 120s | 315s | 13 |
| Fasthosts | 243s | 230s | 120s | 400s | 6 |
| Evoxt | 261s | 175s | 120s | 600s | 6 |
| BlueVPS | 400s | 400s | 400s | 400s | 1 |
| Evolution Host Ltd | 429s | 160s | 40s | 3300s | 12 |
| Melbicom | 521s | 540s | 100s | 960s | 6 |
| OVHcloud | 862s | 580s | 35s | 3240s | 12 |
| Hivelocity | 1726s | 210s | 180s | 14400s | 12 |
| Leaseweb | 1730s | 300s | 90s | 4800s | 3 |
| ARPHost | 1860s | 1860s | 300s | 3420s | 2 |
| 0ping.eu | 2249s | 454s | 50s | 12600s | 8 |
| OnetSolutions | 2297s | 165s | 30s | 25000s | 12 |
| 1Gbits | 4890s | 105s | 40s | 57600s | 12 |
| Unihost | 7372s | 2520s | 1020s | 27000s | 5 |
| dogado | 7665s | 225s | 90s | 43200s | 6 |