All Trials

During each trial, the response times and system metrics of a public website are continuously measured and recorded. At the end of the trial, Sysbench tests are run and the results are available from the trial page.

A trial is for a single VPS provider on a single VPS plan and lasts for several days, generally one week.

OS and kernel vary between provider and plans. The web application, ruby and rails are upgraded when new versions become available but stay the same for the entire trial duration.

Started	Provider	Plan	Datacenter	CPU type	Num cores
Oct 30 2020	Togglebox	4GB 2cores	Pennsylvania, USA	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	2
Oct 28 2020	Scaleway	GP1-XS	Paris, France	AMD EPYC 7401P 24-Core Processor	4
Oct 26 2020	Vultr	VC2 16GB 6 cores	New Jersey, USA	Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)	6
Oct 24 2020	UpCloud	16GB 6 cores	Madrid, Spain	AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor	6
Oct 22 2020	DigitalOcean	Basic 1GB 1 core	Frankfurt, Germany	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz	1
Oct 20 2020	MaxKVM	SKVM-1G	Texas, USA	AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core Processor	1
Oct 18 2020	Ramnode	KVM Premium 4GB	New York, USA	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	2
Oct 17 2020	Hetzner	CX31	Nuremberg, Germany	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	2
Oct 14 2020	Google Compute Engine	n2d-standard-2	Iowa, USA	AMD EPYC 7B12	2
Oct 12 2020	Genesis VMs	vm.t5sd.2xlarge	Illinois, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz	1
Oct 10 2020	Contabo	VDS L	Nuremberg, Germany	AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor	12
Oct 08 2020	IONOS by 1&1	VPS M RAM	USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz	2
Oct 07 2020	LayerStack	R208-HK	Hong Kong, China	AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)	4
Oct 05 2020	OVHcloud	VPS Essential	Virginia, USA	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)	2
Oct 04 2020	Amazon Lightsail	8GB 2cores	Virginia, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz	2
Oct 01 2020	Clouding.io	24GB 12 cores	Barcelona, Spain	High Performance Datacenter vCPU	12
Sep 29 2020	Microsoft Azure	D2ds v4	East US	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8272CL CPU @ 2.60GHz	2
Sep 27 2020	Linode	4GB $20	New Jersey, USA	AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor	2
Sep 25 2020	VPS2DAY	Start	Netherlands	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)	1
Sep 24 2020	LunaNode	m.1s	Toronto, Canada	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz	1
Sep 21 2020	Kamatera	General 2GB 1 core	Toronto, Canada	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6150 CPU @ 2.70GHz	1
Sep 20 2020	Alwyzon	KVM Server M	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v3 @ 2.60GHz	2
Sep 18 2020	Aruba Cloud	Cloud PRO 8GB 4 cores	Italy	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10GHz	4
Sep 17 2020	Togglebox	12GB 6cores	Pennsylvania, USA	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	6
Sep 15 2020	Amazon EC2	t4g.medium	Virginia, USA	Neoverse-N1	2
Sep 13 2020	Vultr	High Frequency 4GB	Seattle, Washington, USA	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	2
Sep 11 2020	UpCloud	4GB 2 cores	New York, USA	AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor	2
Sep 09 2020	Atlantic.Net	G2 4GB	Virginia, USA	QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+	2
Sep 07 2020	MaxKVM	PKVM-16G	Amsterdam, Netherlands	AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core Processor	8
Sep 06 2020	CloudSigma	Medium-2	San Jose, California, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz	2
Sep 02 2020	OVHcloud	B2-15	Virginia, USA	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)	4
Sep 01 2020	Alibaba Cloud	ecs.n4.small	Frankfurt, Germany	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2682 v4 @ 2.50GHz	1
Aug 29 2020	Genesis Public Cloud	w6asx.2xlarge	Illinois, USA	AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core Processor	4
Aug 26 2020	Hostwinds	Cloud 4GB 2 cores	Seattle, Washington, USA	Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, IBRS)	2
Aug 24 2020	Contabo	M SSD	Nuremberg, Germany	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz	6
Aug 22 2020	IBM Cloud	cx2-2x4	Texas, USA	Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, IBRS)	2
Aug 20 2020	DigitalOcean	Basic 4GB 2 cores	Frankfurt, Germany	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz	2
Aug 19 2020	IONOS by 1&1	VPS XL	USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz	4
Aug 17 2020	Clouding.io	2GB 1 core	Barcelona, Spain	High Performance Datacenter vCPU	1
Aug 14 2020	BuyVM	Slice 1024	Nevada, USA	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor	1
Aug 11 2020	VPS2DAY	Enterprise	Germany	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)	6
Aug 09 2020	Scaleway	DEV1-M	Paris, France	AMD EPYC 7281 16-Core Processor	3
Aug 07 2020	Ramnode	OpenVZ SSD Standard 2GB	Seattle, Washington, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz	2
Aug 06 2020	Kamatera	Availability 16GB 8 cores	Toronto, Canada	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6150 CPU @ 2.70GHz	8
Aug 04 2020	Aruba Cloud	Cloud VPS Large	Italy	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v4 @ 1.70GHz	2
Aug 03 2020	Togglebox	1GB 1core	Pennsylvania, USA	QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+	1
Aug 02 2020	Vultr	High Frequency 16GB	New York, USA	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	4
Jul 30 2020	UpCloud	1GB 1core	New York, USA	AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor	1
Jul 29 2020	MaxKVM	SKVM-4G	New York, USA	AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core Processor	2
Jul 27 2020	Genesis VMs	vm.c5sd.3xlarge	Illinois, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz	6
Jul 26 2020	Amazon EC2	c5.large	Virginia, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz	2
Jul 24 2020	LayerStack	R108-HK	Hong Kong, China	AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)	2
Jul 21 2020	Google Compute Engine	g1-small	Iowa, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.30GHz	1
Jul 19 2020	Amazon Lightsail	1GB 1core	Virginia, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz	1
Jul 17 2020	Microsoft Azure	D2a v4	East US	AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core Processor	2
Jul 15 2020	Linode	8GB $40	California, USA	AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor	4
Jul 13 2020	Hetzner	CPX31	Nuremberg, Germany	AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)	4
Jul 11 2020	LunaNode	m.16	Toronto, Canada	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz	6
Jul 09 2020	OVHcloud	VPS Elite	Virginia, USA	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)	8
Jul 07 2020	Contabo	VDS M	Nuremberg, Germany	AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor	8
Jul 05 2020	IONOS by 1&1	Cloud Server XXL	USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v4 @ 2.00GHz	8
Jul 02 2020	Clouding.io	16GB 8 cores	Barcelona, Spain	High Performance Datacenter vCPU	8
Jun 30 2020	Alibaba Cloud	ecs.n4.small	Virginia, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8163 CPU @ 2.50GHz	1
Jun 28 2020	VPS2DAY	Basic	Germany	Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge, IBRS update)	2
Jun 26 2020	Hostinger	VPS Server Plan 1	USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4114 CPU @ 2.20GHz	1
Jun 24 2020	Genesis Public Cloud	w6as.xlarge	Illinois, USA	AMD EPYC 7702P 64-Core Processor	2
Jun 22 2020	Kamatera	Availability 4GB 2 cores	Toronto, Canada	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6150 CPU @ 2.70GHz	2
Jun 20 2020	Vultr	VC2 1GB $5	Atlanta, Georgia, USA	Virtual CPU a7769a6388d5	1
Jun 17 2020	Aruba Cloud	Cloud PRO 2GB 1 core	Italy	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10GHz	1
Jun 15 2020	UpCloud	8GB 4 cores	Frankfurt, Germany	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6136 CPU @ 3.00GHz	4
Jun 12 2020	MaxKVM	PKVM-8G	Los Angeles, USA	AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core Processor	4
Jun 10 2020	Dreamhost	gp1_subsonic	Virginia, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz	1
Jun 08 2020	DigitalOcean	General Purpose 2 cores	New York, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz	2
Jun 06 2020	BuyVM	Slice 2048	Nevada, USA	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor	1
Jun 05 2020	Amazon EC2	c5a.large	Virginia, USA	AMD EPYC 7R32	2
Jun 03 2020	Scaleway	DEV1-S	Paris, France	AMD EPYC 7281 16-Core Processor	2
Jun 01 2020	Atlantic.Net	G2 1GB	Virginia, USA	QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+	1
May 29 2020	Genesis VMs	vm.c5sd.2xlarge	Illinois, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz	4
May 28 2020	OVHcloud	VPS Comfort	Virginia, USA	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)	4
May 27 2020	Contabo	VDS S	Nuremberg, Germany	AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor	6
May 26 2020	IONOS by 1&1	VPS M	USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz	2
May 25 2020	Clouding.io	4GB 2 cores	Barcelona, Spain	High Performance Datacenter vCPU	2
May 23 2020	Google Compute Engine	n2-highcpu-2	Iowa, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU	2
May 21 2020	Amazon EC2	m5a.large	Virginia, USA	AMD EPYC 7571	2
May 20 2020	VPS2DAY	Premium	Germany	Intel Core Processor (Broadwell)	4
May 18 2020	Ramnode	KVM Premium 2GB	New York, USA	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	1
May 16 2020	Amazon Lightsail	4GB 2cores	Virginia, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz	2
May 15 2020	Kamatera	General 8GB 4 cores	Toronto, Canada	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6150 CPU @ 2.70GHz	4
May 14 2020	OVHcloud	VPS Value	Virginia, USA	Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)	1
May 13 2020	Linode	8GB $40	New Jersey, USA	AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor	4
May 12 2020	Vultr	High Frequency 2GB	Georgia, USA	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	1
May 11 2020	Aruba Cloud	Cloud VPS Small	Italy	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v4 @ 1.70GHz	1
May 10 2020	Microsoft Azure	D2 v3	East US	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8171M CPU @ 2.60GHz	2
May 09 2020	Hetzner	CX21	Nuremberg, Germany	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	2
May 08 2020	UpCloud	2GB 1core	California, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6136 CPU @ 3.00GHz	1
May 07 2020	Alibaba Cloud	ecs.c5.large	Virginia, USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8269CY CPU @ 2.50GHz	2
May 06 2020	Clouding.io	1GB 0.5 core	Barcelona, Spain	Intel Xeon Virtual CPU	1
May 05 2020	LunaNode	m.8	Toronto, Canada	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz	4
May 04 2020	IONOS by 1&1	Cloud Server L	USA	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz	2
May 03 2020	Vultr	VC2 4GB $20	Atlanta, Georgia, USA	Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)	2