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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hetzner | 20s | 12s | 25s | 4 |
Amazon EC2 | 28s | 10s | 40s | 7 |
Atlantic.Net | 31s | 25s | 45s | 6 |
DigitalOcean | 33s | 24s | 40s | 4 |
IDrive Compute | 35s | 15s | 50s | 11 |
Scaleway | 37s | 25s | 50s | 4 |
Alibaba Cloud | 40s | 30s | 60s | 4 |
Google Compute Engine | 41s | 25s | 60s | 4 |
HostHatch | 42s | 25s | 60s | 5 |
Amazon Lightsail | 43s | 15s | 60s | 4 |
Ramnode | 45s | 40s | 50s | 2 |
UpCloud | 51s | 40s | 80s | 12 |
Microsoft Azure | 59s | 40s | 75s | 6 |
ORACLE Cloud | 62s | 25s | 120s | 4 |
LunaNode | 64s | 15s | 120s | 6 |
Clouding.io | 65s | 35s | 150s | 12 |
Evoxt | 65s | 55s | 80s | 3 |
Genesis Public Cloud | 67s | 23s | 170s | 9 |
0ping.eu | 75s | 60s | 90s | 2 |
Linode | 77s | 60s | 110s | 7 |
ScalaHosting | 80s | 50s | 120s | 8 |
Genesis VMs | 85s | 65s | 110s | 3 |
Alwyzon | 86s | 30s | 120s | 7 |
Klikk | 86s | 40s | 180s | 12 |
OVHcloud US | 88s | 45s | 170s | 8 |
A2 Hosting | 90s | 60s | 120s | 2 |
Vultr | 125s | 30s | 330s | 12 |
Cloudzy | 130s | 130s | 130s | 1 |
IBM Cloud | 140s | 120s | 170s | 3 |
Cherry Servers | 147s | 90s | 280s | 7 |
Aruba Cloud | 149s | 30s | 220s | 12 |
RackNerd | 180s | 180s | 180s | 1 |
Hostinger | 200s | 200s | 200s | 1 |
UltaHost | 205s | 200s | 210s | 2 |
Togglebox | 212s | 180s | 330s | 12 |
VPS2DAY | 246s | 130s | 360s | 12 |
Kamatera | 290s | 210s | 370s | 12 |
Evolution Host Ltd | 320s | 60s | 1800s | 8 |
RoseHosting | 480s | 360s | 600s | 2 |
IONOS | 533s | 45s | 1680s | 12 |
Vpsdime | 745s | 720s | 770s | 2 |
Linkdata.com | 900s | 900s | 900s | 1 |
OVHcloud | 960s | 960s | 960s | 1 |
LayerStack | 1820s | 40s | 15600s | 9 |
Contabo | 3190s | 120s | 28800s | 10 |
OnetSolutions | 4940s | 90s | 43200s | 11 |
BuyVM | 27300s | 600s | 54000s | 2 |
netcup | 86490s | 180s | 172800s | 2 |