Vultr has a “High Frequency Compute” VPS that has high clock speed and NVMe. It has some excellent performance!
DigitalOcean also recently introduced a similar VPS called “Premium Droplets” powered by Intel and AMD with NVMe SSDs.
So I decided to compare the performance of both with WordPress!
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Testing Setup
I created 5 VPS servers in the same region as follows:
- DigitalOcean Regular – $5/month
- DigitalOcean Premium Intel – $6/month
- DigitalOcean Premium AMD – $6/month
- Vultr Regular – $5/month
- Vultr High Frequency – $6/month
Running performance test via Google PageSpeed Insights or GTmetrix is not an ideal way to test servers’ performance as it can vary based on several factors.
So I used loader.io to send requests from 0 to 500 clients per second over 1 min.
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Test Results
DigitalOcean Regular
DigitalOcean Intel Premium
DigitalOcean AMD Premium
Vultr Regular
Vultr High Frequency
Summary
| VPS | Average Response Time |
|---|---|
| DigitalOcean Regular | 5.9s |
| DigitalOcean Intel Premium | 5.2s |
| DigitalOcean AMD Premium | 3.7s |
| Vultr Regular | 7.0s |
| Vultr High Frequency | 3.1s |
Conclusion
Vultr High Frequency has the best performance of all. DigitalOcean AMD Premium is also close.
If I had to choose between these, I would probably go with DigitalOcean AMD Premium as I’ve seen better uptime with DigitalOcean than Vultr.
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