VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr • Hacker News Board

Most VPS providers rent rack space at large colocation facilities in multiple cities. In some cases they locate right next to major peering points for very good peering and very cheap bandwidth.

Vultr in particular is massively underrated and is certainly good enough to use in production.

One caveat though: most of these providers don’t handle sanitization of storage or encryption at rest as thoroughly as the big clouds do. I’d recommend handling your own encryption at rest with these if you have sensitive data. See: Vault, LUKS, etc.

Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

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Post by whateveracct » Sat, Aug 26, 2023, 7:44 PM UTC

api wrote: post #8

kingofheroes wrote: post #3

Are they all just AWS resellers?

None of them are. There’s no way you could make money doing that in the VPS market especially with the ludicrous bandwidth costs at AWS. Most VPS providers rent rack space at large colocation facilities in multiple cities. In some cases they locate right next to major peering points for very good peering and very cheap bandwidth. Vultr in particular is massively underrated and is certainly good enough to use in produ…

Digital Ocean does offer managed Postgres with encryption in transit and at rest. I had a nice experience with their Postgres offering. They also have an S3 equivalent (spaces) and managed Redis.

Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

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Post by andrewstuart » Sat, Aug 26, 2023, 7:49 PM UTC

I’d like stats included for running on a locally hosted fast modern machine.