Vultr vs. OVH vs. Ramnode vs. Linode vs. Digitalocean?

I heard of these VPS hosting companies but not tried all their services.

Vultr, OVH, Ramnode, Linode and Digitalocean? which one can give you best price, specs...for a strong VPS?

Vultr - Not bad, not to expensive, cool features but oriented more for dev than hosting with pay per hour
OVH - YES YES and YES - 3$ for a VPS which can run a faster web server if you don't use a control panel (yes I know, I hope you love SSH )
Ramnode - No experience myself, but i'm currently moving a customer from their vps offer because it's how to say that. Too expensive and really slow. But I don't know what are their other offer, anyway for me it's not the best
Linode - Better than Vultr in perf, but cost most
DigitalOcean - Like linode, good level of service, but expensive

You have not list the all new in the hosting war : Scaleway : 3$ for 2core 2GB RAM and 50GB SSD. Up to 800mbps unmetered. Better network than ovh, less powerful cpu. But a good choice anymore. with some baremetal (small dedicated) from 12$ with 8GB RAM and up to 2.5GB network



So I will recommand you OVH in production, really reliable hosting, 3x less expensive than others. And to make some test try scaleway as you can pay per hour any server. Even the bigger which cost 25$ for 32GB RAM. They haven't a big cpu but fast enough to run what you want

VirtuBox said:

Vultr - Not bad, not to expensive, cool features but oriented more for dev than hosting with pay per hour

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Right, I am having one VPS with Vultr, everything just fine but just a thing, 1 or 2 months your VPS can be downed that you don't know the reason, you have to restart the VPS and it works as well back. Maybe by their network.

VirtuBox said:

OVH - YES YES and YES - 3$ for a VPS which can run a faster web server if you don't use a control panel (yes I know, I hope you love SSH )

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Why it runs faster when don't use a hosting control panel?

VirtuBox said:

Ramnode - No experience myself, but i'm currently moving a customer from their vps offer because it's how to say that. Too expensive and really slow. But I don't know what are their other offer, anyway for me it's not the best

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I used, its pretty good but expensive and you have to use KVM SSD and this type of VPS is pretty expensive if you don't have a good budget.

VirtuBox said:

Linode - Better than Vultr in perf, but cost most

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I have not used Linode before.
Better than Vultr? what features?

VirtuBox said:

DigitalOcean - Like linode, good level of service, but expensive

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I don't know but DigitalOcean loaded pretty slow for me at 2GB Memory, 2 Core Processor.

fwh said:

Right, I am having one VPS with Vultr, everything just fine but just a thing, 1 or 2 months your VPS can be downed that you don't know the reason, you have to restart the VPS and it works as well back. Maybe by their network.

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Vultr have less one click-apps available, and with exactly the same price than digitalOcean. For me that's too expensive for web hosting, because you will not use hourly billing.

Why it runs faster when don't use a hosting control panel?

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Because a control panel try to have the less impact on websites performances, not to be the fastest hosting solution. Using a light web server (LAMP or LEMP) you will always have better performances than a control panel. But to manage several websites, it could be hard sometimes, and for security, you have to know what you are doing.
For WordPress websites, some tools like easyengine or centminmod make the command line easy to use, even for several websites. One of my VPS handle 35k visitors daily with 4GB RAM and the load average is under 5%.

I have not used Linode before.
Better than Vultr? what features?

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Linode is two times less expensive, for similar or better performances (from some benchmarks I have run on the 3 providers).

I don't know but DigitalOcean loaded pretty slow for me at 2GB Memory, 2 Core Processor.

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No issue with DigitalOcean but like Vultr, expensive for web hosting.

VirtuBox said:

Vultr have less one click-apps available, and with exactly the same price than digitalOcean. For me that's too expensive for web hosting, because you will not use hourly billing.

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What click-apps are you talking about?

VirtuBox said:

One of my VPS handle 35k visitors daily with 4GB RAM and the load average is under 5%.

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If so you could need to optimize your VPS more on configurations. I could think to 50% or higher load average for this case.

VirtuBox said:

Linode is two times less expensive, for similar or better performances (from some benchmarks I have run on the 3 providers).
No issue with DigitalOcean but like Vultr, expensive for web hosting.

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yeah you are right, I checked both providers and Linode is really cheaper but not sure it can be better.

Linode pricing


Vultr pricing


While we only pay $20 to have 4GB RAM Linode but need to pay $40 to have same configs with Vultr and DigitalOcean. I think its also a factor affect to customers before purchasing a hosting plan.

Mujkanovic said:

What click-apps are you talking about?

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If so you could need to optimize your VPS more on configurations. I could think to 50% or higher load average for this case.

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That's already an optimized configuration, with a control panel I will probably have higher load average

yeah you are right, I checked both providers and Linode is really cheaper but not sure it can be better.
While we only pay $20 to have 4GB RAM Linode but need to pay $40 to have same configs with Vultr and DigitalOcean. I think its also a factor affect to customers before purchasing a hosting plan.

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You can check my benchmark if you want to compare the performances of Linode, DO & Vultr : https://forumweb.hosting/13131-benchmark-top-hosting-providers-vps-update-07-16.html

I prefer OVH and find it evens runs fine with cPanel, too.

Prices are more or less the same in my opinion, the hardware is also more or less the same, its the support that makes a difference and non of the big companies offer support at the level which they should.
I personally think Digitalocean does a little better when it comes to the support part.

I agree, most big companies forget about support which is the biggest push for customers. That's what happens when you get famous and forget how you became famous in the first place!

Support from vultr also good, i have one with vultr. No have any problem until 7mo previously in ovh. Ovh performance good but some time network slow for my VPS SSD 1, so i moved to vultr.

jwn said:

Support from vultr also good, i have one with vultr. No have any problem until 7mo previously in ovh. Ovh performance good but some time network slow for my VPS SSD 1, so i moved to vultr.

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You are right about this, I have same issues with VPS SSD 2 and VPS SSD 3, sometimes it loaded slowly and I can not know why causes that.
But with VPS SSD 1, you are at lowest and minimum configurations for a VPS at OVH, I am sure you will have this problem happened many times

If I am not wrong, you are using this plan from OVH.

VPS SSD 1
OpenStack KVM
1 vCore
2.4 GHz
2 GB RAM
10 GB SSD
Local RAID 10

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If so, you should consider using higher plans, as VPS SSD 3 or VPS CLOUD 3 of OVH which can give you good speed and more stable.

VPS CLOUD 3
OpenStack KVM
99.99% SLA
4 vCores
3.1 GHz
8 GB RAM
100 GB
High Availability (Ceph)

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Gecko said:

I've been thinking about trying one of these out from OVH but now I am not sure that I should.

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You should try VPS SSD 3 or VPS CLOUD 3, if you have a decent budget, you can go with a dedicated server.
Since I asked this question, I tried some in them and had some experience or knew which ones are better.

I can order their position based on quality/price/specs as follows

OVH > Vultr > Digitalocean > Linode > Ramnode

Linode for VPS hands down beats all the others for performance + cloud based features like cloning disks and vps and snapshot backups. OVH VPS is the worst as it's disk I/O is very bad and capped.

Order would be

1. Linode
2. Ramnode
3. DigitalOcean
4. Vultr
5. OVH

I have lots of comparative benchmark reviews for Linode, DigitalOcean, and Vultr and individual OVH Cloud VPS reviews I have done and posted on my own forums. Not sure if I can link to them here ?

have comparative benchmarks but it's against forum rules to link to them (self promotion) and they're long and detailed

example of one of dozens of benchmark results this is for disk FFIO benchmarks back in August 2015



and OpenSSL - of particular interest is for SSL certificates and HTTPS via RSA 2048bit and ECC 256bit ECDSA



OVH Public Cloud EG-7 instance from Jan 2016 benchmarks raw disk FFIO in comparison
OpenSSL

I think OVH SSD VPS 3 plan is really good. Their SSD VPS range is much better compared to their Cloud VPS. Plus OVH offers far better DDoS protection compared to the others, and so the combo of speed & DDoS protection for value for money would go to OVH, IMO.

I had a VPS with Vultr with their 10Gbps DDoS protected IP which didn't help whatsoever, whereas OVH DDoS protection did. But then this topic seems to be more about performance than DDoS protection, so I'll try not to go off-topic. Though if your VPS can't even handle 5Gbps DDoS attack then it doesn't matter how much Disk IO you have as performance will be affected either way and so in that sense OVH would win.

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have comparative benchmarks but it's against forum rules to link to them (self promotion) and they're long and detailed

example of one of dozens of benchmark results this is for disk FFIO benchmarks back in August 2015

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and OpenSSL - of particular interest is for SSL certificates and HTTPS via RSA 2048bit and ECC 256bit ECDSA

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OVH Public Cloud EG-7 instance from Jan 2016 benchmarks raw disk FFIO in comparison

Code:

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disk FIO tests
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FIO random reads:
randomreads: (g=0): rw=randread, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=64
fio-2.0.9
Starting 1 process
randomreads: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 1024MB)

randomreads: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=3984: Thu Dec 31 19:49:25 2015
  read : io=1024.3MB, bw=8004.4KB/s, iops=2001 , runt=131033msec
  cpu          : usr=1.82%, sys=6.32%, ctx=246575, majf=0, minf=83
  IO depths    : 1=0.1%, 2=0.1%, 4=0.1%, 8=0.1%, 16=0.1%, 32=0.1%, >=64=100.0%
     submit    : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     complete  : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.1%, >=64=0.0%
     issued    : total=r=262207/w=0/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0

Run status group 0 (all jobs):
   READ: io=1024.3MB, aggrb=8004KB/s, minb=8004KB/s, maxb=8004KB/s, mint=131033msec, maxt=131033msec

Disk stats (read/write):
  vda: ios=262045/73, merge=0/26, ticks=8374297/371, in_queue=8375702, util=100.00%

FIO random writes:
randomwrites: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=64
fio-2.0.9
Starting 1 process

randomwrites: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=4002: Thu Dec 31 19:51:41 2015
  write: io=1024.3MB, bw=7727.4KB/s, iops=1931 , runt=135729msec
  cpu          : usr=1.39%, sys=6.26%, ctx=220032, majf=0, minf=18
  IO depths    : 1=0.1%, 2=0.1%, 4=0.1%, 8=0.1%, 16=0.1%, 32=0.1%, >=64=100.0%
     submit    : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     complete  : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.1%, >=64=0.0%
     issued    : total=r=0/w=262207/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0

Run status group 0 (all jobs):
  WRITE: io=1024.3MB, aggrb=7727KB/s, minb=7727KB/s, maxb=7727KB/s, mint=135729msec, maxt=135729msec

Disk stats (read/write):
  vda: ios=0/261960, merge=0/0, ticks=0/8649441, in_queue=8650299, util=100.00%

OpenSSL

Code:

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OpenSSL System Benchmark
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OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
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openssl speed rsa4096 rsa2048 ecdsap256 sha256 sha1 md5 rc4 aes-256-cbc aes-128-cbc -multi 2
OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
built on: Mon Dec 14 05:15:47 UTC 2015
options:bn(64,64) md2(int) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DKRB5_MIT -m64 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -Wall -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -Wa,--noexecstack -DPURIFY -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM
md5             119114.20k   346672.32k   764772.86k  1095572.14k  1256876.71k
sha1            132379.21k   368093.29k   801694.21k  1183186.26k  1474958.68k
rc4             740271.96k  1300585.32k  1520406.95k  1575287.47k  1582809.09k
aes-128 cbc     253559.56k   278434.73k   284982.02k   609188.52k   618599.77k
aes-256 cbc     184280.39k   199743.91k   202872.58k   446723.75k   452149.25k
sha256          100144.66k   221360.19k   392457.05k   473819.14k   499971.41k
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
rsa 2048 bits 0.000590s 0.000018s   1695.0  56349.2
rsa 4096 bits 0.004132s 0.000066s    242.0  15209.3
                              sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
256 bit ecdsa (nistp256)   0.0001s   0.0002s  19419.3   5057.9
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openssl speed -evp aes256 -multi 2
OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
built on: Mon Dec 14 05:15:47 UTC 2015
options:bn(64,64) md2(int) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DKRB5_MIT -m64 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -Wall -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -Wa,--noexecstack -DPURIFY -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM
evp             957220.09k  1007051.93k  1020813.31k  1024438.27k  1015267.33k
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openssl speed -evp aes128 -multi 2
OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
built on: Mon Dec 14 05:15:47 UTC 2015
options:bn(64,64) md2(int) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DKRB5_MIT -m64 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -Wall -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -Wa,--noexecstack -DPURIFY -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM
evp            1258757.73k  1356930.77k  1383251.71k  1390031.87k  1394032.64k

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This data may be out of date because they were benchmarks in August 2015, they also don't tell us all aspects of a web hosting companies as support, pricing, hosting control panel, uptime/downtime..etc hence I think your orders might not be exact.

eva2000 said:

1. Linode
2. Ramnode
3. DigitalOcean
4. Vultr
5. OVH

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Guess it's relative to the end user's criteria and requirements. I don't need much support as I manage all my servers myself 96% centmin mod lemp based and remaining 4% are cpanel/whm based. So my criteria first and foremost is performance to price ratio with Linode being the sweet spot given that 8GB memory + 4 cpus on Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 or E5-2680v3 or E5-2697v4 processor with 96GB fast SSD storage and 4TB bandwidth is US$40/month https://www.linode.com/pricing

I'm late for the party since this thread was created last summer.

Of all the hosts listed, I've only dealt with RamNode, so I can only give my opinion of them, and there service and support is A+.

Not when your Linode IP is being DDoS. OVH wins then!? k:

hehe.. can't wait to see OVH move into USA hosting scene with their announced data center expansion plans though = more options to choose from whether it be native DDOS protected servers or utilising Gre tunnels between DDOS protected ip and origin servers

OVH, why? because of:
Low price
DDoS Protection
99% Uptime

The only problem they have is disk space, yes they have SSD, but its too low, i would prefer getting normal disk than getting too low SSD, i am talking about OVH plan 1.