DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)

Both the DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) and Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) instances offer a similar configuration with 1 GB of RAM and 1 vCPU, but they differ in their CPU models and performance metrics. DigitalOcean's instance uses a DO-Regular CPU, while Vultr's instance features an Intel Core Processor (Broadwell). This comparison will delve into their benchmark results to highlight unique traits, patterns, and contrasts in their performance.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked	-	-
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-51-generic	6.8.0-57-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1	8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	New York, NY	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	$6	$5
RAM (GB)	1	1
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	25	25
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	1	1

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Regular	Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2494.138	2394.454
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4096	16384
BogoMips	4988.27	4788.90
Events per Second	991.05	849.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.91	1.14
Average Latency (ms)	1.01	1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.39	2.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.18	1.3

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second	4709145.29	4189596.54
Mebibytes per second	4598.77	4091.4
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.26	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second	4629884.3	4183422.22
Mebibytes per second	4521.37	4085.37
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.29	1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second	3351.16	2262.66
Writes per Second	2234.11	1508.44
Fsyncs per Second	7149.64	4834.05
Read Mebibytes per Second	52.36	35.35
Written Mebibytes per Second	34.91	23.57
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.12
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.14	2.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.2	0.37

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1900.79	2226.55
Average Latency (ms)	1922.59	2234.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	1933.12	2243.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1938.16	2238.47

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4740	5043
Queries per second	47400	50430
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.21	1.74
Average Latency (ms)	2.11	1.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.75	17.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.19	2.35

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	3816	3731
Queries per second	38160	37310
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.13	1.53
Average Latency (ms)	2.62	2.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	14.39	23.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.91	4.41

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1786	1860
Queries per second	17860	18600
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.97	3.76
Average Latency (ms)	5.59	5.37
Maximum Latency (ms)	18.47	36.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	9.56	8.43

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	9172	7892
Queries per second	91720	78920
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.51	0.93
Average Latency (ms)	1.09	1.26
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.39	17.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.7	1.76

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1084592	931337
Queries per second	10845920	9313370
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	463.87	760.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	138016	115147
Queries per second	1380160	1151470
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.07
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.64	5.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.14	0.12

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	140	1195
Queries per second	1400	11950
Minimum Latency (ms)	39.7	2.26
Average Latency (ms)	71.46	8.36
Maximum Latency (ms)	98.2	21.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	94.1	12.75

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4308	4545
Queries per second	43080	45450
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.83	0.76
Average Latency (ms)	2.32	2.2
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.23	5.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.55	2.76

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	5553	5582
Queries per second	55530	55820
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.54	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	1.8	1.79
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.52	18.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.68	3.13

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	8832	7653
Queries per second	88320	76530
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.52	0.79
Average Latency (ms)	1.13	1.31
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.79	9.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.76	1.93

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second	12299	9964
Queries per second	122990	99640
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.07
Average Latency (ms)	0.81	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.77	8.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.67	1.86

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	49,044	38,037
PING_MBULK per Second	52,632	38,895
SET per Second	47,148	36,563
GET per Second	48,077	37,453
INCR per Second	51,177	37,750
LPUSH per Second	49,950	38,037
RPUSH per Second	51,256	38,256
LPOP per Second	49,188	37,509
RPOP per Second	49,285	37,453
SADD per Second	53,476	37,979
HSET per Second	51,467	37,764
SPOP per Second	49,751	38,168
ZADD per Second	48,780	37,580
ZPOPMIN per Second	45,413	37,707
LRANGE_100 per Second	25,523	24,225
LRANGE_300 per Second	12,853	12,673
LRANGE_500 per Second	7,224	8,804
LRANGE_600 per Second	7,287	7,149
MSET (10 keys) per Second	44,287	27,871

Conclusion

DigitalOcean's instance shows slightly better performance in Redis benchmarks, especially in LRANGE operations, and has lower file I/O latency. However, Vultr's instance has a larger L3 cache and performs better in MySQL bulk insert operations. For CPU-intensive tasks and I/O-heavy workloads, DigitalOcean might be preferable, while Vultr could be better for specific MySQL operations. Overall, DigitalOcean excels in Redis and file I/O, whereas Vultr shines in certain MySQL tasks.

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