World's fastest enterprise-level cloud servers - UpCloud

[Viktor Szepe]

Long time ago I was deciding where to rent our infrastructure based on:

• I've seen it in an ad
  
• pretty website, administrative interface
• blog posts
  
• personal recommendations
• my feelings
• prices only

After that period I've made a series of benchmarks at 160 server providers and concluded:

How to choose VPS provider?

Operation

1. Company transparency, status page
2. Data center location
3. Price
4. Has own AS? Number of peers
5. Response to abuse report, spammer neighbors
   • projecthoneypot.org
   • talosintelligence.com/reputation_center/lookup?search=AS-description
   • cleantalk.org/blacklists/AS0000
   • cymon.io/IP
6. Stores plain text passwords?
7. Response time of nighttime technical support in case of network or hardware failure
8. Daytime technical and billing support

Infrastructure

1. Redundancy: power, cooling, network, storage, hypervisor
2. Network: worldwide and regional bandwidth, port speed, D/DoS mitigation, IPv6 bgp.he.net
3. CPU speed: PassMark CPU Mark 2000+, sysbench < 20 ms, WordPress Speedtest < 150 ms
4. Memory bandwidth: flat graphs with bandwidth64
5. Disk access time: < 1 ms
6. Scheduled backup

Here are the results: github.com/szepeviktor/wordpress-speedtest

UpCloud is the winner.