Digital Ocean 8GB vs. 16GB Cloud SSD
Digital Ocean public cloud benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com....


16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD: 

	Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB RAM, Disk: 158GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0

8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD: 

	Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 79GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 2000 |===========================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 2085 |=============================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 1817.94 |=============================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 2645.64 |==========================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 3332 |=============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 1561 |=====================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 5431333 |==========================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 5167333 |========================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 50245 |============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 26976 |========================


x264 2014-01-09
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 80.18 |============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 39.59 |======================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Blur
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 51 |==============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 52 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 45 |===============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 31 |================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 65 |==============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 66 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 82 |=============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 86 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 45 |=============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 47 |===============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 825.84 |=======================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 921.91 |===========================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 89.13 |=======================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 99.77 |============================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 148.24 |========================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 271.00 |===========================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 33.48 |=======================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 64.06 |============================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 10.22 |=====================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 21.68 |============================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 8.33 |=========================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 9.23 |=============================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 21.89 |=======================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 24.89 |============================================


FFmpeg 2.1.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 51.69 |============================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 36.10 |===============================


OpenSSL 1.0.1f
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 492.35 |===========================================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 210.27 |==================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD . 5019.33  |===================
8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ... 10628.61 |=========================================