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DigitalOcean vs Linode
Tonight I want to compare DigitalOcean offerings versus Linode 512, which is my prefered and used LEMP stack enviroment for production. SSD is nice to have but Linode doesn't provide an instance with it, but for the sake of comparing apples-2-apples these are the configurations:
Linode 512 | Price: $19.95 | Cores: 1 CPU | Memory: 512 | Disk: 24GB | Transfer: 2TB
DigitalOcean | Price: $5.00 | Cores: 1 CPU | Memory: 512MB | Disk: 20GB | Transfer: 1TB
DigitalOcean | Price: $160 | Cores: 8 CPU | Memory: 16Gb | Disk: 160GB | Transfer: 1TB
My tests were using CentOS 6.3 with Nginx 1.3, PHP 5.3.21+ installed form CentOS ALT. To generate the load I use http://loader.io/ create by the SendGrid Labs. again using the defaults of 250 maximum users and 60 seconds of duration.
Before each run I restart nginx and php-fpm.
The first test was using the APC status page apc.php.
Linode 512: Success responses: 84344 | Avg response time: 37 | Sent from app: 988.90 MB | Rcvd from loader: 9.35 MB
Digital 1C: Success responses: 34528 | Avg response time: 107 | Sent from app: 403.97 MB | Rcvd from loader: 3.88 MB
Digital 8C: Success responses: 46549 | Avg response time: 79 | Sent from app: 544.63 MB | Rcvd from loader: 5.22 MB
Second test I download and install Symfony 2 framework, use their default Hellow World example. Symfony requirements check pass except PCRE that require version 8.0+.
Linode 512: Success responses: 2672 | Avg response time: 1610 | Sent from app: 28.15 MB | Rcvd from loader: 571.29 KB
Digital 1C: Success responses: 486 | Avg response time: 4058 | Sent from app: 5.13 MB | Rcvd from loader: 233.40 KB
Digital 8C: Success responses: 8293 | Avg response time: 608 | Sent from app: 87.42 MB | Rcvd from loader: 1.59 MB
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I have used both of them and I can’t say anything bad about the 2. I use it for a NGINX webserver (7 websites with 100.000 pageviews/month together), a teamspeak server, and some hoby scripts (python,…).
Digitalocean has a great GUI to manage your Droplet (this is how they call your VPS), linode has a depreciated GUI, but they have an android/iOS app.
If you are a student you can get 100 dollar for free via the github student bundle.