Linode Thoughts on Linode?

Yeah DigitalOcean definitely is slower than Vultr. Linode for CPU performance can vary greatly due to several generations of cpus on Intel and AMD side in the mix, so you don't know which you'd land on. So worth spinning up a few Linodes until you find a nice fast CPU Hence, I always benchmark and test a new server before deciding if it's a keeper

But Linode's strength is everything else, disk resilience and storage layer and ability to clone/migrate VPS servers between datacenters and their transfer speeds are much faster with outbound network speeds >1Gbps up to 12Gbps https://www.linode.com/pricing/ while other VPS provides are around 1Gbps. Vultr does have fast network connectivity outbound too but nothing published as guaranteed like Linode. And certainly not 40Gbps network transfer speeds inbound side.

This forum uses Linode for past 8yrs now Affiliate link https://centminmod.com/linode/

Linode shared VPS

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RAM    CPUs    SSD Storage    Transfer    Network In    Network Out    Monthly    Hourly 
1 GB    1    25 GB    1 TB    40 Gbps    1 Gbps    $5    $0.0075    Sign Up
2 GB    1    50 GB    2 TB    40 Gbps    2 Gbps    $10    $0.015    Sign Up
4 GB    2    80 GB    4 TB    40 Gbps    4 Gbps    $20    $0.03    Sign Up
8 GB    4    160 GB    5 TB    40 Gbps    5 Gbps    $40    $0.06    Sign Up
16 GB    6    320 GB    8 TB    40 Gbps    6 Gbps    $80    $0.12    Sign Up
32 GB    8    640 GB    16 TB    40 Gbps    7 Gbps    $160    $0.24    Sign Up
64 GB    16    1280 GB    20 TB    40 Gbps    9 Gbps    $320    $0.48    Sign Up
96 GB    20    1920 GB    20 TB    40 Gbps    10 Gbps    $480    $0.72    Sign Up
128 GB    24    2560 GB    20 TB    40 Gbps    11 Gbps    $640    $0.96    Sign Up
192 GB    32    3840 GB    20 TB    40 Gbps    12 Gbps    $960    $1.44    Sign Up

Linode dedicated CPU VPS

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RAM    CPUs    SSD Storage    Transfer    Network In    Network Out    Monthly    Hourly 
4 GB    2    80 GB    4 TB    40 Gbps    4 Gbps    $30    $0.045    Sign Up
8 GB    4    160 GB    5 TB    40 Gbps    5 Gbps    $60    $0.09    Sign Up
16 GB    8    320 GB    6 TB    40 Gbps    6 Gbps    $120    $0.18    Sign Up
32 GB    16    640 GB    7 TB    40 Gbps    7 Gbps    $240    $0.36    Sign Up
64 GB    32    1280 GB    8 TB    40 Gbps    8 Gbps    $480    $0.72    Sign Up
96 GB    48    1920 GB    9 TB    40 Gbps    9 Gbps    $720    $1.08    Sign Up
128 GB    50    2500 GB    10 TB    40 Gbps    10 Gbps    $960    $1.44    Sign Up
256 GB    56    5000 GB    11 TB    40 Gbps    11 Gbps    $1,920    $2.88    Sign Up
512 GB    64    7200 GB    12 TB    40 Gbps    12 Gbps    $3,840    $5.76    Sign Up

On 8GB, 4 CPU, 160GB Linode KVM VPS download speed at 569MB/s

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wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2022-02-20 09:24:36--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null                                              100%[===========================================================================================================================>] 100.00M   569MB/s    in 0.2s   

2022-02-20 09:24:36 (569 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [104857600/104857600]

 

Yes that is an issue with Linode and any VPS provider that mixes cpus. Upcloud being a new VPS provider has managed to keep the issue limited as most of the new VPS host nodes are AMD EPYC based now some regions are guaranteed i.e. NYC.

Vultr also provides some kind of guarantee of newer processors.

I'd like for Linode to offer dedicated VPS plans for specific CPU families i.e. Intel and AMD line similar to what Hetzner are doing on their Cloud VPS lines.

Source compiled Nginx/PHP is highly dependent on CPU clock speed and number of CPU thread/cores. Higher clock speed + more CPU core/threads = faster.