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 | 26s | 25s | 30s | 3 |
| Amazon EC2 | 26s | 10s | 40s | 6 |
| Atlantic.Net | 34s | 25s | 50s | 7 |
| Scaleway | 35s | 30s | 45s | 3 |
| Google Compute Engine | 36s | 20s | 60s | 3 |
| DigitalOcean | 41s | 40s | 45s | 3 |
| Amazon Lightsail | 45s | 15s | 60s | 3 |
| Ramnode | 45s | 40s | 50s | 2 |
| Alibaba Cloud | 45s | 30s | 60s | 2 |
| HostHatch | 50s | 25s | 110s | 9 |
| Genesis Public Cloud | 50s | 25s | 90s | 11 |
| UpCloud | 50s | 40s | 65s | 12 |
| ORACLE Cloud | 52s | 45s | 60s | 2 |
| Clouding.io | 54s | 35s | 110s | 12 |
| Microsoft Azure | 58s | 40s | 75s | 7 |
| TransIP | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
| Fybe | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
| Genesis VMs | 65s | 65s | 65s | 1 |
| LunaNode | 66s | 60s | 80s | 3 |
| A2 Hosting | 75s | 60s | 90s | 2 |
| Evoxt | 75s | 55s | 90s | 6 |
| Linode | 79s | 60s | 110s | 7 |
| OVHcloud US | 80s | 45s | 170s | 8 |
| IBM Cloud | 90s | 20s | 130s | 3 |
| Alwyzon | 91s | 40s | 120s | 7 |
| LayerStack | 95s | 50s | 220s | 7 |
| Hostinger | 130s | 90s | 200s | 3 |
| Aruba Cloud | 145s | 30s | 280s | 12 |
| Crunchbits | 150s | 150s | 150s | 1 |
| Cherry Servers | 152s | 90s | 220s | 7 |
| ScalaHosting | 161s | 25s | 1200s | 13 |
| INET.WS | 165s | 45s | 240s | 3 |
| Vultr | 172s | 30s | 360s | 12 |
| RackNerd | 180s | 180s | 180s | 1 |
| Evolution Host Ltd | 259s | 60s | 1800s | 12 |
| VPS2DAY | 270s | 70s | 360s | 12 |
| Linkdata.com | 285s | 60s | 900s | 4 |
| Kamatera | 287s | 220s | 400s | 12 |
| RoseHosting | 328s | 120s | 600s | 7 |
| IONOS | 345s | 45s | 1260s | 12 |
| OVHcloud | 477s | 65s | 960s | 6 |
| OnetSolutions | 859s | 80s | 9000s | 13 |
| Togglebox | 1289s | 150s | 12000s | 11 |
| Contabo | 2743s | 300s | 28800s | 12 |
| BuyVM | 27030s | 60s | 54000s | 2 |
| netcup | 57720s | 180s | 172800s | 3 |