Each column is one deployment. Matching context does not establish equivalent physical hosts.Reviewed data · within-run medians
PerformanceReviewed data
DigitalOcean4 vCPU · 7.8 GiB
Vultr4 vCPU · 7.7 GiB
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CPU performance
sysbench prime events · max prime 20,000 · gzip level 6 · higher is better
MetricDigitalOcean c-4Vultr voc-c-4c-8gb-75s-amd
Single thread
433.9events/s
22% of 2,000
1,671events/s
84% of 2,000
All 4 vCPUs
1,375events/s
17% of 8,000
6,656events/s
83% of 8,000
gzip compression
207.2MiB/s
83% of 250
242.1MiB/s
97% of 250
Identical thread counts and test settings. Bars use a common scale within each row.
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Memory bandwidth
sysbench · 256 MiB block · one thread · higher is better
MetricDigitalOcean c-4Vultr voc-c-4c-8gb-75s-amd
Read
7,556MiB/s
19% of 40,000
36,657MiB/s
92% of 40,000
Write
8,408MiB/s
21% of 40,000
25,594MiB/s
64% of 40,000
Bars share one scale across both rows. A memory copy workload is not part of this profile.
PerformanceReviewed data
DigitalOceanLondon, UK
VultrLondon, UK
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Disk performance
fio · direct I/O · 1 MiB / QD32 sequential · 4 KiB / QD32 random
MetricDigitalOcean c-4Vultr voc-c-4c-8gb-75s-amd
Sequential read
8,838MB/s
4,197MB/s
Sequential write
1,720MB/s
2,133MB/s
Random read
118,756IOPS
117,225IOPS
Random write
101,210IOPS
99,265IOPS
Random read p95
399.4µs
354.3µs
Random write p95
497.7µs
452.6µs
Throughput and IOPS: higher is better. Latency: lower is better. Mixed 70/30 runs and p50/p99 latency are in each full report.
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Network performance
Same two controlled London endpoints · one iperf3 stream · 100 Mbit/s rate setting
MetricDigitalOcean c-4Vultr voc-c-4c-8gb-75s-amd
Download · endpoint 1
100.1Mbit/s
100.1Mbit/s
Download · endpoint 2
100.1Mbit/s
100.1Mbit/s
Upload · endpoint 1
100.1Mbit/s
100.1Mbit/s
Upload · endpoint 2
100.1Mbit/s
100.2Mbit/s
Latency · endpoint 1
0.60ms
4.28ms
Latency · endpoint 2
3.42ms
0.39ms
Source location affects latency. Actual bytes can exceed the 64 MiB target; these routes do not measure maximum link capacity. Jitter and packet loss are not reported.