VPS Provisioning Times

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 26s 10s 45s 4
Hetzner 30s 25s 35s 2
Scaleway 32s 30s 35s 2
DigitalOcean 35s 30s 40s 2
Katapult 36s 30s 50s 4
MoonQube 36s 25s 70s 9
Alibaba Cloud 37s 30s 45s 2
SalmonCloud 40s 40s 40s 1
HostHatch 40s 35s 45s 2
Alwyzon 45s 25s 60s 7
Microsoft Azure 48s 45s 50s 4
OVHcloud US 53s 30s 70s 5
ORACLE Cloud 55s 50s 60s 2
Amazon Lightsail 60s 40s 80s 2
Hostman 60s 60s 60s 1
LayerStack 67s 50s 80s 4
UpCloud 67s 50s 90s 11
Genesis Public Cloud 67s 40s 180s 12
Linode 73s 60s 90s 8
Clouding.io 73s 35s 300s 12
Google Compute Engine 78s 35s 160s 3
EVLBOX 90s 90s 90s 1
Vultr 91s 70s 130s 12
1Gbits 100s 80s 120s 2
Linkdata.com 100s 100s 100s 1
IBM Cloud 100s 100s 100s 1
Snakecraft Hosting 100s 25s 200s 8
Evoxt 101s 80s 140s 7
Hostinger 114s 45s 240s 13
PQ.Hosting 120s 120s 120s 1
VPS2DAY 122s 30s 340s 12
Evolution Host Ltd 146s 90s 300s 12
VPS Mart 150s 30s 240s 3
netcup 150s 120s 180s 2
Cherry Servers 155s 130s 180s 9
Hivelocity 167s 110s 210s 7
Aruba Cloud 168s 60s 320s 12
OnetSolutions 180s 90s 300s 12
Virtarix 185s 170s 200s 2
Webyne 190s 190s 190s 1
Server Optima 190s 110s 270s 2
ScalaHosting 222s 45s 1200s 12
IONOS 223s 55s 780s 11
RoseHosting 250s 80s 600s 11
Kamatera 302s 140s 520s 12
Togglebox 514s 65s 2520s 12
MonoVM 576s 75s 2040s 4
OVHcloud 597s 45s 1560s 12
BuyVM 600s 600s 600s 1
HostUp 1339s 25s 8400s 7
Contabo 18639s 210s 219600s 12
Verpex 21900s 2700s 39600s 3

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