VPS news

2023/12/16 Benchmark was added for free server of Vultr[Detail]
2023/11/7 DigitalOcean[Detail] added DDoS protection. Linode[Detail] disabled new subscription to DBaaS service temorarily.
2023/11/5 Number of benchmarked course of DigitalOcean[Detail] reached 100 courses
2023/11/4 Added HighMemory, High CPU plan for UpCloud[Detail] and updated price based on Euro


2022/8/16 Updated all benchmark result of UpCloud[Detail]
2022/8/8 Updated all benchmark result of Linode[Detail]
2022/7/29 UpCloud[Detail] now supports live spec change of the server.
2022/7/01 DigitalOcean[Detail]’s price increased 20% and I reflected the change to the list. Basic Memory 0.5GB instance is added as new server spec type.
2022/5/17 Vultr[Detail] now supports HDD(not SSD) for block storage, which is cheapest in Comparison list of block storage.
2022/5/17 I added new benchmark for new server types for Vultr[Detail].
2022/05/06 DBaaS of Linode[Detail] becomes generally available.
2022/02/16 Akamai bought Linode[Detail], which will strengthen coverage of service&captial
2022/01/21 Linode[Detail] started offering NVMe for block storage, so I updated benchmark of Block storage comparison
2022/01/13 Linode[Detail] started offering DbaaS(MySQL/PostgreSQL/Redist/MongoDB) as beta version
2022/01/08 CPU info is updated due to change of DigitalOcean[Detail]’s Basic Regular CPU & Linode[Detail]
2021/9/30 DigitalOcean[Detail] started supporting wild card SSL certificates on load balancer.
2021/9/29 Upcloud[Detail] doubled limitation of block storage. So you can attach 7 x 4TB = 28TB to server. I reflected the change to Block storage comparison list.
2021/9/26 Added benchmark of Baremetal server whose vCPU is 8 and 48 for Vultr[Detail]. Total CPU Score of vCPU x 48 is best among all VPS
2021/9/25 Vultr[Detail] will start charing for storage of snapshot. $0.05/GB. Sweden DC is newly opened.
2021/9/12 DigitalOcean[Detail] baught Nimbella which is offering serverless functions.
2021/9/4 Data transfer between Vultr[Detail] and Object Storage service BackBlaze becomes free due to their alliance.
2021/08/03 Vultr[Detail] added cheaper Baremetal plan. Comparison list and Detail was updated.
2021/06/23 Vultr[Detail] renewed Baremetal’s plan. Benchmark is updated. Performance is good in terms of ROI.
2021/06/16 Upcloud[Detail] added Managed databsase(DBaaS) for MySQL&PostgreSQL.
2021/02/26 Vultr‘s additional block storage is avalialbe as NVMe in LA DC. Updated Comparison of block/file storage. You can filter VPS list by NVMe now.
2021/02/24 DigitalOcean added Premium CPU (AMD/Intel) for Basic plan, so I added benchmark for them
2021/02/02 Added article “How to switch to AlmaLinux from CentOS(RHE’s clone)
2020/12/11 DigitalOcean added more options for load balancer to increase capacity. I reflected the change to Digital Ocean’s explanation
2020/12/04 I encountered AMD EPYC 7542 whose performance is excellent for Linode‘s cheapest plan “nanode”. So I took benchmark&reflected the result to the list.
2020/11/14 DigitalOcean released Storage optimized plan. Benchmark result is reflected to the list(Please filter by “Storage Optimized”)
2020/11/14 Added keyword filtering functions for VPS list
2020/10/22 Upcloud opened Madrid DC&started Object Storage. I updated Object Storage comparison&UpCloud’s introduction
2020/09/28 Added explanation to checkboxes for filtering, which can be read by mouse over or clicking
2020/09/18 Links to Detailed explanation of each VPS are added to the list. Selected sorting is saved now for the list.
2020/08/05 I made CPU info shown in benchmark list to make easy to understand meaning of benchmark
2020/07/24 Upcloud opened New York DC. All servers have AMD whose performance is great. Updated UpCloud’s introduction
2020/07/12 Upcloud introduced new CPU of AMD, so I reflected the result to CPU list of VPS
2020/07/06 Linode added CPU50/56/64 plan, so I added benchmark for them. New CPU is encountered in Dedicated 50 CPU plan, so I reflected it to CPU list of VPS
2020/06/06 Linode has started using AMD EPYC 7601 as CPU&it’s most frequently provided CPU now. I updated CPU list of VPS&Benchmark result of Linode
2020/06/05
Upcloud tripled HDD speed. Disk writing speed for all external disks is added to Comparison of external disks
2020/05/30
Added article “Benchmark of performance degradation by Docker’s overhead with knowhow of installation&usage of docker
2020/05/22
Created VPS list for Windows sorted by benchmark
2020/05/12
Linode started providing Kubernetes(k8s) as General Availability. I reflected the change to Linode’s explanation.
2020/05/12
Vultr started South Korea’s Data Center. I added Vultr’s Data center list to Vultr’s detailed explanation.
2020/05/04
Added article MariaDB vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL: Flowchart to choose best RDB
2020/04/29
DigitalOcean added VPC(Virtual Private Cloud) function. I added VPC as comparison item to VPS’s function list
2020/02/28
Added filtering function for easy installation and added software list provided by the function
2020/02/10
Added detailed explanation page of DigitalOcean, Linode, UpCloud and Vultr
2020/02/09
Updated CPUs of VPS: How to judge whether it is good or not for new CPU of lightsail and improved list’s view and info
2020/02/07
Added detailed explanation page of Aamazon Llightsail
2020/02/03
– Added view for smartphone and more filtering functions like k8s, DBaaS, etc.
– Added free transfer info to VPS comparison list
2020/01/30
Linode started providing DDoS protection for free. We updated VPS function’s list for it
2020/01/29
Added Upcloud’s benchmark to the list
2020/01/20
Added article “How to upgrade to CentOS 8.1 & use latest packages