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Server Price* CPU (1 thread) CPU (4 threads) IO
Scaleway Start1-XS
Atom C3955, 25G NVMe		 $4 21 sec
P₉₅ = 2.1ms		 21 sec
P₉₅ = 14ms		 🚗 653 IO/s, 10 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.40ms
Scaleway VC1-S
Atom C2750, 50G SSD		 $4 46 sec ⚠️
P₉₅ = 4.6ms		 23 sec
P₉₅ = 14ms		 🚲 289 IO/s, 4.5 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.39ms
Hetzner CPX11
AMD EPYC, 40G SSD		 $5 20 sec
P₉₅ = 3.2ms		 9.6 sec
P₉₅ = 11ms		 ✈️ 3656 IO/s, 57 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.29ms
Hetzner CX21
Intel Xeon, 40G SSD		 $6 24 sec
P₉₅ = 2.8ms		 12.5 sec
P₉₅ = 11ms		 🚤 1946 IO/s, 30 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.97ms
AWS t2.micro 1G
Intel E5-2676 v3 2.4GHz, EBS		 $6 29 sec
P₉₅ = 3.1ms		 29 sec
P₉₅ = 15ms		 🚤 1150 IO/s, 17 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 1.01ms
Digital Ocean 1G
Xeon E5-2650, 25G SSD		 $6 31 sec
P₉₅ = 3ms		 31 sec
P₉₅ = 19ms		 ✈️ 3412 IO/s, 53 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.52ms
OVH VPS SSD2
Xeon E3-12xx, 20G SSD		 $7 31 sec
P₉₅ = 3.4ms		 31 sec
P₉₅ = 15ms		 🚤 1113 IO/s, 17 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.68ms
Hetzner CPX21
AMD EPYC, 80G SSD		 $8 18 sec
P₉₅ = 3ms		 6.9 sec
P₉₅ = 9.6ms		 🚤 1950 IO/s, 30 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 1.08ms
OVH VPS CLOUD RAM1
Xeon E3-12xx, 25G NVMe HA		 $11 31 sec
P₉₅ = 3.4ms		 32 sec
P₉₅ = 15ms		 🚲 110 IO/s, 1.7 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 8ms
Hetzner CX31
Intel Xeon, 80G SSD		 $11 30 sec
P₉₅ = 3.5ms		 15 sec
P₉₅ = 11.45ms		 🚗 900 IO/s, 14 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 2.57ms
Linode 2048
Xeon E5-2680, 24G SSD		 $12 32 sec
P₉₅ = 3.4ms		 32 sec
P₉₅ = 14ms		 ✈️ 3426 IO/s, 53 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.15ms
SSDNode 24G
Intel 2.6GHz, 120G SSD		 $150/y 46 sec ⚠️
P₉₅ = 5.1ms		 50 sec ⚠️
P₉₅ = 86ms		 🚗 660 IO/s, 10 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 2ms
Scaleway Start1-L
Atom C3955, 50G NVMe		 $14 21 sec
P₉₅ = 2.2ms		 5.4 sec
P₉₅ = 2.3ms		 🚗 626 IO/s, 9.8 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.45ms
Hetzner CPX31
AMD EPYC, 160G SSD		 $15 17 sec
P₉₅ = 3ms		 5.3 sec
P₉₅ = 3ms		 ✈️ 2560 IO/s, 40 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.74ms
Digital Ocean 1G/3vCPU
Xeon E5-2650L, 60G SSD		 $18 39 sec
P₉₅ = 4ms		 13 sec
P₉₅ = 12ms		 ✈️ 2644 IO/s, 41 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.57ms
Hetzner CX41
Intel Xeon, 160G SSD		 $19 26 sec
P₉₅ = 2.8ms		 6.9 sec
P₉₅ = 2.9ms		 🚤 1700 IO/s, 26 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 1.06ms
Digital Ocean 4G
Xeon Gold 6140, 80G SSD		 $24 25 sec
P₉₅ = 2.8ms		 13 sec
P₉₅ = 11ms		 ✈️ 2900 IO/s, 45 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.4ms
Scaleway C2M
Atom C2750, 50G SSD		 $24 46 sec ⚠️
P₉₅ = 4.6ms		 11 sec
P₉₅ = 4.5ms		 🚗 500 IO/s, 7.8 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.02ms
Vultr Compute 4G
Intel 2.6GHz, 80G SSD		 $24 25 sec
P₉₅ = 2.8ms		 12.8 sec
P₉₅ = 11ms		 ✈️ 2800 IO/s, 43 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.58ms
Hetzner CCX11
Intel Xeon, 80G SSD		 $27 28 sec
P₉₅ = 4.4ms		 16 sec
P₉₅ = 13.5ms		 🚤 2100 IO/s, 31 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.97ms
Hetzner CCX12
AMD EPYC, 80G SSD		 $27 6.9 sec ❓
P₉₅ = 0.7ms		 6.2 sec
P₉₅ = 9.22ms		 🚀 8770 IO/s, 107 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.22ms
Vultr High CPU 4G
Intel 3.8GHz, 128G NVMe		 $28 21 sec
P₉₅ = 2.4ms		 10.8 sec
P₉₅ = 10ms		 🚀 7500 IO/s, 117 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.17ms
Online Start-2-M-SSD
Atom C2750, 250G SSD		 $28 46 sec ⚠️
P₉₅ = 4.6ms		 11 sec
P₉₅ = 4.5ms		 🚗 789 IO/s, 12.3 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.02ms
OVH Public Cloud B2-7
Intel 2.2Ghz, 50G SSD		 $30 28 sec
P₉₅ = 2.9ms		 14 sec
P₉₅ = 11ms		 ✈️ 3020 IO/s, 47 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.33ms
OVH kimsufi
i5 3570s, 2T SATA HDD		 $34 23 sec
P₉₅ = 2.4ms		 6.4 sec
P₉₅ = 2.7ms		 🐢 17 IO/s, 0.3 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 30ms
OVH Public Cloud C2-7
Intel 3.1Ghz, 50G SSD		 $43 25 sec
P₉₅ = 2.7ms		 12 sec
P₉₅ = 11ms		 ✈️ 3028 IO/s, 47 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.67ms
Digital Ocean 8G
Xeon Gold 6140, 160G SSD		 $48 25 sec
P₉₅ = 2.8ms		 6.7 sec
P₉₅ = 3.3ms		 ✈️ 3800 IO/s, 59 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.58ms
SoYouStart E3-SSD-3
E3 1245v2, 3x 120 Go SSD		 $50 22 sec
P₉₅ = 2.2ms		 5.9 sec
P₉₅ = 2.3ms		 🚀 6239 IO/s, 97 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.01ms
NUC8i5BEH 16G
i5-8259u, 256Gnvme		 $600 buy 19 sec
P₉₅ = 1.9ms		 5.0 sec
P₉₅ = 2.0ms		 ✈️ 2300 IO/s, 32 Mb/sec
P₉₅ = 0.1ms

*VAT included

Testing protocol

sysbench 1.0 (ubuntu 18.04+)

sudo apt install sysbench
# CPU
sysbench cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --time=0 --events=10000 run
sysbench cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --time=0 --events=10000 --num-threads=4 run
# IO
sudo sysbench fileio --file-total-size=10G prepare
sudo sysbench fileio --file-total-size=10G --file-test-mode=rndrw --time=60 --max-requests=0 run
sudo sysbench fileio --file-total-size=10G cleanup

Much faster IO test

sudo sysbench fileio --file-total-size=10G --file-num=1 prepare
sudo sysbench fileio --file-total-size=10G --file-test-mode=rndrw --time=60 --file-io-mode=async --file-extra-flags=direct --file-num=1 --file-rw-ratio=1 --file-fsync-freq=0 --max-requests=0 run
sudo sysbench fileio --file-total-size=10G --file-num=1 cleanup

sysbench 0.4 (ubuntu 16.04)

sudo apt install sysbench
# CPU
sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=4 run
# IO
sudo sysbench --test=fileio --file-total-size=10G prepare
sudo sysbench --test=fileio --file-total-size=10G --file-test-mode=rndrw --init-rng=on --max-time=60 --max-requests=0 run
sudo sysbench --test=fileio --file-total-size=10G cleanup
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spuyet commented Feb 6, 2019

Here is the AWS t2.micro instance benchmark: https://gist.github.com/spuyet/b43c5258bedda772bb1280d14479914b

The pricing varies following the selected plan (dedicated vs on demand instance, 1 year vs 3 years contract, ...): https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
FTR TVA is excluded.

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Hetzner CCX12
AMD Epyc 7003, 80GB SSD
25.40 EUR/mo

CPU (1 thread)
6.9225s
P95=0.7ms

CPU (4 thread)
6.2795s
P95=9.22ms

IO
8770.96 fsyncs
64.24MiB/s read, 42.93 MiB/s write
P95 = 0.22ms

root@ubuntu-8gb-nbg1-5:~# sysbench cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --time=0 --events=10000 run

sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time


Prime numbers limit: 20000

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

CPU speed:
    events per second:  1444.47

General statistics:
    total time:                          6.9225s
    total number of events:              10000

Latency (ms):
         min:                                    0.68
         avg:                                    0.69
         max:                                    1.56
         95th percentile:                        0.70
         sum:                                 6921.06

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           10000.0000/0.00
    execution time (avg/stddev):   6.9211/0.00


root@ubuntu-8gb-nbg1-5:~# sysbench cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --time=0 --events=10000 --num-threads=4 run
WARNING: --num-threads is deprecated, use --threads instead
sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 4
Initializing random number generator from current time


Prime numbers limit: 20000

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

CPU speed:
    events per second:  1592.37

General statistics:
    total time:                          6.2795s
    total number of events:              10000

Latency (ms):
         min:                                    0.90
         avg:                                    2.51
         max:                                   17.22
         95th percentile:                        9.22
         sum:                                25094.04

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           2500.0000/3.74
    execution time (avg/stddev):   6.2735/0.00

root@ubuntu-8gb-nbg1-5:~# sudo sysbench fileio --file-total-size=10G --file-test-mode=rndrw --time=60 --max-requests=0 run
sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time


Extra file open flags: (none)
128 files, 80MiB each
10GiB total file size
Block size 16KiB
Number of IO requests: 0
Read/Write ratio for combined random IO test: 1.50
Periodic FSYNC enabled, calling fsync() each 100 requests.
Calling fsync() at the end of test, Enabled.
Using synchronous I/O mode
Doing random r/w test
Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!


File operations:
    reads/s:                      4111.29
    writes/s:                     2740.86
    fsyncs/s:                     8770.96

Throughput:
    read, MiB/s:                  64.24
    written, MiB/s:               42.83

General statistics:
    total time:                          60.0098s
    total number of events:              937421

Latency (ms):
         min:                                    0.00
         avg:                                    0.06
         max:                                    9.59
         95th percentile:                        0.22
         sum:                                59759.54

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           937421.0000/0.00
    execution time (avg/stddev):   59.7595/0.00

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