In February this year, we upgraded our cloud servers to the latest Intel Xeon E5-2687W CPU with DDR4 RAM. Following the upgrade, we decided to benchmark the performance of our new Cloud VPS platform and compare it to DigitalOcean and AWS. The server type/size used: RedyHost: Cloud 2 VPS, featuring 2CPUs and 2GB RAM, cost: A$26/mo US$19.68 DigitalOcean: droplet featuring 2CPUs and 2GB RAM, cost: US$20/mo AWS: m3.large instance, featuring 2CPUs and 7.5GB of RAM, cost: US$135/mo In all 3 clouds, all 3 servers run default Ubuntu 14.04 x64 bit template. All 3 servers used apt-get to install the Phoronix test suite. Need a Cloud […]