DigitalOcean 256MB $5 Cloud VPS Benchmark + Free Trial

serverbear

So I came across these guys a few weeks ago & meant to benchmark their plans for a while. Finally got round to it today.

Few interesting things:

• You can trial/test this 256MB node free
• They're running KVM nodes in NY somewhere.
• Bandwidth is unmetered on 100Mbps ports
• Monthly or Hourly pricing
• Custom management panel which uses Bootstap but it's really slick & straightforward.
• Servers are provisioned in seconds

Few things that annoyed me, I couldn't provision any of the dedicated plans to test it just wouldn't deploy or give me any errors, they also don't tell you much about the resources on some of the higher plans (i.e. HDD space).

The box I tested is $5/month KVM, 256mb RAM, 20GB HDD.

UnixBench

Benchmark Run: Wed Aug 29 2012 02:04:02 - 02:32:13
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       25190502.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     3060.7 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               2875.1 lps   (29.8 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        996513.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          289016.2 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1611841.1 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             1926651.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 254552.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               9523.0 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   6330.8 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    827.7 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        3401055.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   25190502.3   2158.6
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       3060.7    556.5
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       2875.1    668.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     996513.9   2516.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     289016.2   1746.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1611841.1   2779.0
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    1926651.3   1548.8
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     254552.8    636.4
Process Creation                                126.0       9523.0    755.8
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       6330.8   1493.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        827.7   1379.5
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    3401055.5   2267.4
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                        1342.0

IOPS

ioping -c 10
request=1 time=0.4 ms
request=2 time=0.5 ms
request=3 time=0.6 ms
request=4 time=0.5 ms
request=5 time=0.6 ms
request=6 time=0.6 ms
request=7 time=0.5 ms
request=8 time=0.7 ms
request=9 time=0.9 ms
request=10 time=0.5 ms

10 requests completed in 9008.3 ms, 1749 iops, 6.8 mb/s

ioping -RD
2633 iops, 10.3 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/0.4/2.2/0.1 ms

dd

dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync
9.09587 s, 118 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
8.91848 s, 120 MB/s

FIO

Read IOPS  3173.0
Read Bandwidth  12.6 MB/second
Write IOPS  428.0
Write Bandwidth 1.7 MB/second

Network

Cachefly    12.6 MB/s
Linode, Atlanta, GA, USA     4.60 MB/s
Linode, Dallas, TX, USA  2.03 MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP    553 KB/s
Linode, London, UK   1.23 MB/s
OVH, Paris, France   809 KB/s
SmartDC, Rotterdam, Netherlands  1.10 MB/s
Hetzner, Nuremberg, Germany  972 KB/s
iiNet, Perth, WA, Australia  349 KB/s
Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL, USA   1.07 MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore     363 KB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA, USA  1.23 MB/s
Softlayer, San Jose, CA, USA     1.19 MB/s
Softlayer, Washington, DC, USA   9.39 MB/s

Full Benchmark: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/08/29/x39JaMARTYhRBn5b

ErawanArifNugroho

Just tried them a few days ago, and their panel is nice

rm_

Unmetered 100 mbit for $5/mo certainly looks interesting.

@serverbear said: You can trial/test this 256MB node free

Couldn't find any detail, how long is that trial?

They're running KVM nodes in NY somewhere.

From their FAQ it looks like Amsterdam is also available. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/speed-test-for-the-us-and-amsterdam-servers-please

ErawanArifNugroho

@rm_ said: Couldn't find any detail, how long is that trial?

I forgot it, but maybe 12 hours or 24 hours

Ash_Hawkridge

Im wondering if that panel is based on WebVirtMgr.