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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | 25s | 25s | 25s | 25s | 2 |
| Hexabyte | 28s | 30s | 20s | 35s | 3 |
| Scaleway | 30s | 30s | 25s | 35s | 2 |
| Amazon AWS | 30s | 25s | 20s | 45s | 3 |
| DigitalOcean | 37s | 37s | 30s | 45s | 2 |
| Alibaba Cloud | 40s | 40s | 40s | 40s | 1 |
| VPSLab | 50s | 50s | 50s | 50s | 1 |
| Microsoft Azure | 51s | 50s | 45s | 60s | 3 |
| ScalaHosting | 57s | 60s | 30s | 80s | 11 |
| Amazon Lightsail | 60s | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
| HostHatch | 60s | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
| BlastVPS | 63s | 45s | 25s | 120s | 3 |
| 0ping.eu | 64s | 64s | 60s | 69s | 2 |
| Alwyzon | 65s | 60s | 25s | 120s | 7 |
| Linode | 70s | 70s | 60s | 80s | 2 |
| Hostman | 70s | 60s | 60s | 90s | 5 |
| ORACLE Cloud | 72s | 72s | 55s | 90s | 2 |
| Genesis Public Cloud | 72s | 61s | 30s | 160s | 12 |
| LayerStack | 75s | 75s | 70s | 80s | 2 |
| Database Mart | 77s | 50s | 30s | 180s | 5 |
| Google Compute Engine | 80s | 40s | 40s | 160s | 3 |
| OVHcloud US | 83s | 70s | 30s | 240s | 8 |
| UpCloud | 85s | 85s | 45s | 110s | 12 |
| SalmonCloud | 86s | 90s | 40s | 130s | 5 |
| Togglebox | 96s | 50s | 20s | 360s | 12 |
| RackGenius | 98s | 90s | 25s | 240s | 12 |
| Vultr | 100s | 90s | 30s | 260s | 11 |
| Clouding.io | 104s | 52s | 45s | 360s | 12 |
| RackNerd | 110s | 110s | 110s | 110s | 1 |
| RAKsmart | 120s | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
| IONOS | 120s | 85s | 60s | 240s | 10 |
| Linkdata.com | 120s | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
| TakeHost.Biz | 125s | 125s | 100s | 150s | 2 |
| Aruba Cloud | 140s | 125s | 80s | 260s | 12 |
| Infomaniak | 150s | 150s | 150s | 150s | 2 |
| Hostinger | 150s | 120s | 40s | 360s | 12 |
| Fasthosts | 162s | 170s | 120s | 210s | 5 |
| Server Optima | 162s | 155s | 35s | 270s | 12 |
| EuroHoster | 163s | 180s | 130s | 180s | 3 |
| Contabo | 184s | 120s | 25s | 780s | 12 |
| dogado | 195s | 195s | 90s | 300s | 4 |
| Nobull Networks | 200s | 210s | 120s | 240s | 5 |
| HostArmada | 200s | 200s | 200s | 200s | 1 |
| OnetSolutions | 218s | 155s | 90s | 900s | 12 |
| Kamatera | 222s | 215s | 110s | 520s | 12 |
| Evoxt | 264s | 140s | 90s | 600s | 7 |
| MonoVM | 280s | 100s | 50s | 2040s | 11 |
| Evolution Host Ltd | 403s | 95s | 40s | 3300s | 12 |
| Melbicom | 412s | 405s | 120s | 720s | 4 |
| Hivelocity | 439s | 200s | 110s | 2760s | 13 |
| Cherry Servers | 467s | 130s | 75s | 4000s | 12 |
| OVHcloud | 833s | 780s | 35s | 3240s | 11 |
| HostUp | 975s | 50s | 25s | 8400s | 9 |
| Webyne | 2195s | 2195s | 190s | 4200s | 2 |
| Unihost | 2520s | 2520s | 2520s | 2520s | 2 |
| 1Gbits | 5345s | 120s | 60s | 57600s | 11 |
| Leaseweb | 19030s | 3000s | 90s | 54000s | 3 |