Benchmarks
Geekbench
iperf3
Speedtest-cli
Deployment time

Plan IDTypeRAMDiskBandwidthPriceHourly PriceLocation
vc2-1c-0.5gbStandard0.5 GB10 GB SSD0.5 TB$3.50$0.005New York only
vc2-1c-1gbStandard1 GB25 GB SSD1 TB$5.00$0.007Seattle available
vhf-1c-1gbHigh Frequency1 GB32 GB NVMe1 TB$6.00$0.008Seattle available
vhp-1c-1gbHigh Performance1 GB25 GB NVMe2 TB$6.00$0.008Seattle available
vc2-1c-2gbStandard2 GB55 GB SSD2 TB$10.00$0.014Seattle available
vc2-2c-2gbStandard x22GB3TB$15.00$0.021Seattle

Misc

Time to deploy from API (Ubuntu and Debian)

  • time between API request to successful SSH with whoami printed
    On GUI only Debian is available for vc2-1c-0.5

ewr + deb 12 + lowest tier = 139.23s
~~ + deb 11 = 157.02s
sea + ub22 + 1/1 = 128.38s
sea + ub24 + 1/1 = 101.10s
sea + deb11 + 1/1 = 115.19s
sea + deb12 + 1/1 = 132.33s
vc2-1c-0.5gb-ewr-2136 = 110.21s
1hf/1 + ubuntu = 70s
1hf/1 + debian = 78.30s
1hp/1 + ubuntu = 195.32s
1hp/1 + debian = 127.23s
vhf-1c-1gb-sea-2284 = 79.28s
vhf-1c-1gb-sea-2136 = 79.30s
vc2-1c-1gb-sea-2284 = 123.22s
vc2-1c-1gb-sea-2284 = 136.28s
vc2-1c-1gb-sea-2136 = 93.17s
vc2-1c-1gb-sea-2136 = 125.45s
vc2-1c-1gb-sea-2136 = 82.05s

Network

Normal iperf
Normal speedtest
Wireguard bare metal server

  • speedtest from home
  • iperf wg, htop
  • client: Windows 10 PC, WG app
    Tailscale bare metal
  • iperf3
  • wget Jellyfin speedtest, htop, network monitoring
    Outline VPN server, 3x-ui VLESS + WS + TLS (Caddy lego and cloudflare) and VMESS + WS
  • speedtest, CPU monitoring
    Caddy - is AES enabled on CPU?
    Take note of disk usage

Performance

Geekbench
Unrar, 7z benchmark

Docker

apt update && apt upgrade time taken, take note of storage usage
Time to install docker, note storage
Pull the images first, before docker compose up -d
Use existing data to make sure the app is running state rather than initializing

  • UptimeKuma
  • Authelia
  • Backrest
  • FileBrowser
  • Wordpress + MySQL
  • Tailscale
  • Portainer
    Lower priority
  • Syncthing
  • Fireshare
  • JDownloader
  • SFTPGo
  • OpenWebUI

Measure time to deploy, afterward, measure CPU usage.