Benchmarks Linode Benchmark London 1CPU 2GB Ram

I'm using one of these instances to currently host a production site. It's a 1 CPU, 2GB instance in London with 30GB SSD. I've had good uptime with Linode and can have no complaints in that regard. But I'm always looking out for a faster, better deal.

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I've already benchmarked OVH Gravelines with a similar spec instance. I've also benchmarked Google Cloud Platform which is a good read if you like a comedy.

Location: London - 1 CPU, 2GB Ram, 30 GB SSD





A time of 1680 seconds is not what I was expecting and I'm surprised. It's actually the slowest of the 7 benchmarks I ran today with OVH and Google Cloud Platform.

At this price point, I've not seen anything that beats the Hetzner and HostUS benchmarks, but I would like to test VMHaus and Inception Hosting at some point as I've heard good things.

 

Yep, no one has a crystal ball. The Linode above could have been in a bad neighbourhood which is why it took an age to install PHP. Or maybe this is typical for this product. My lack of experience comes into play here. I don't really know what a good benchmark score is for the sort of VPS instances in my price range. The guidelines state somewhere that something between 900-1200 is decent. However, I look at the Hetzner scores and see numbers like 1081 seconds for an instance that costs roughly £2.10 per month. When you compare that to 1680 seconds for my Linode instance that costs 3 times more then it makes you think.

But does it make a difference to my end goal of serving wordpress pages quickly to a lot of users? I guess so but for me these scores can only really act as a basic filter for thought like - "Oh, that's quite good I'll need to try them out and see if they're any good".

When I've done some more reading and have a better understanding I'll run the centminmodbench.sh script .

 

This is actually why I'm leaning towards trying VMHaus first. They do London and LA currently but I think they have 2 more US locations opening with one on the East coast which would be good.

Only downside is the $7 instance only has 30GB storage and the next instance is $14 with 50GB storage. They could do with something round the $10 mark. I did find a review on Lowend Talk and it seems thorough and positive.

 

I'm using betainstaller.sh php 5.6