Linode vs Gandi vs DigitalOcean
target machines:
| name | instance type | RAM | CPU cores | storage | transfer |
|---|
| divananalit.org | $5 digitalocean instance | 512MB | 1 core | 20GB SSD | 1TB |
| bitcheese.net | $20 linode instance | 1GB | 8 core (1x priority) | 48GB | 2TB |
| dump.bitcheese.net | 372/hour (about $30) gandi instance (1 share) | 512MB | 1 core | 111GB | 500GB |
IO
| host | read | write |
|---|
| divananalit.org | 587 MB/s | 236 MB/s |
| bitcheese.net | 57 MB/s | 53 MB/s |
| dump.bitcheese.net | 179 MB/s | 128 MB/s |
Litecoin mining
| host | hashrate |
|---|
| divananalit.org | 5.7 khash/s |
| bitcheese.net | 2.8 khash/s per thread, 23 khash/s total |
| dump.bitcheese.net | 3.4 khash/s |
Raw data
divananalit.org:~% dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1024 count=4000000
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 17.3789 s, 236 MB/s
divananalit.org:~% dd if=file of=/dev/null
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 6.97622 s, 587 MB/s
bitcheese.net:~% dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1024 count=4000000
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 77.1816 s, 53.1 MB/s
bitcheese.net:~% dd if=file of=/dev/zero
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 71.1889 s, 57.5 MB/s
dump.bitcheese.net:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1024 count=4000000
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 31.8841 s, 128 MB/s
dump.bitcheese.net:~$ dd if=file of=/dev/zero
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 22.9042 s, 179 MB/s