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Aug

2015

Digital Ocean Vs Linode Speed Test

Hello everyone! Today we tested the download, disk write, and disk read speeds. Here is a data table with the results of the tests.

You can also download the PDF at the bottom of the page if you want to save it on your computer

				Speed in MB/s	Speed in MB/s
Test Type	Test Number	Location	Test	Digital Ocean	Linode
Download	1	Internet	wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test	18.7	13.9
Download	2	Internet	wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test	16.2	11.7
Download	3	Internet	wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test	15	10.2
			Average	16.63	11.93

Test Type	Test Number	Location	Test	Digital Ocean	Linode
Write	1	Disk	sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync	364	292
Write	2	Disk	sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync	395	306
Write	3	Disk	sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync	390	290
Write	4	Disk	sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync	379	294
Write	5	Disk	sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync	383	298
Write	6	Disk	sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync	408	301
			Average	386.5	296.83


Test Type	Test Number	Location	Test	Digital Ocean	Linode
Read	1	Disk	dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024	887	546
Read	2	Disk	dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024	1,228.80	642
Read	3	Disk	dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024	945	594
Read	4	Disk	dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024	1,126.40	582
Read	5	Disk	dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024	987	651
Read	6	Disk	dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024	1,126.40	692
			Average	1,050.10	617.83