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
![](https://wpspeedmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screenshot-2021-03-14-at-12.01.05-PM-1024x615.png)
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.
![](https://wpspeedmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screenshot-2021-03-14-at-12.07.38-PM-1024x592.png)
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Test Results
DigitalOcean Regular
![](https://wpspeedmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DO-Intel-Regular-1024x704.png)
DigitalOcean Intel Premium
![](https://wpspeedmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DO-Intel-Premium-1024x699.png)
DigitalOcean AMD Premium
![](https://wpspeedmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DO-AMD-Premium-1024x693.png)
Vultr Regular
![](https://wpspeedmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Vultr-Regular-1024x691.png)
Vultr High Frequency
![](https://wpspeedmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Vultr-HF-1024x713.png)
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 |
![](https://wpspeedmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DO-vs-Vultr.png)
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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