Meebox vs AWS vs DigitalOcean QEMU testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Meebox node9: Processor: QEMU Virtual @ 2.00GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 3750 MB RAM, Disk: 197GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-34-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: QEMU AWS m3.medium mech: Processor: AWS m3.medium mech @ 2.50GHz (1 Core), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 50GB OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.14.1-031401-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor AWS m3.medium SSD: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 3840 MB RAM, Disk: 296GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-29-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon DigitalOcean 1CPU: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB RAM, Disk: 30GB, Graphics: Device 1234:1111, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-32-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 MeeBox node9 new: Processor: QEMU Virtual @ 2.00GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 3750 MB RAM, Disk: 197GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-34-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: QEMU AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 316.71 |================================================== AWS m3.medium mech . 40.40 |====== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 82.03 |============= DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 79.36 |============= MeeBox node9 new ... 266.55 |========================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 106.50 |======================================= AWS m3.medium mech . 113.55 |========================================== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 68.88 |========================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 16.20 |====== MeeBox node9 new ... 134.88 |================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 79.02 |=================== AWS m3.medium mech . 35.13 |========= AWS m3.medium SSD .. 35.97 |========= DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 204.20 |================================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 45.02 |=========== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 84.59 |=============== AWS m3.medium mech . 124.29 |====================== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 246.02 |============================================ DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 276.55 |================================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 95.73 |================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 103.40 |====================== AWS m3.medium mech . 109.25 |======================= AWS m3.medium SSD .. 237.48 |================================================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 214.03 |============================================= MeeBox node9 new ... 125.83 |========================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 69.78 |=============== AWS m3.medium mech . 76.47 |================= AWS m3.medium SSD .. 231.31 |================================================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 162.97 |=================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 144.94 |=============================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 35.61 |====== AWS m3.medium mech . 77.58 |============== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 154.00 |=========================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 281.84 |================================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 60.77 |=========== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 89.57 |======== AWS m3.medium mech . 34.86 |=== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 35.69 |=== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 577.04 |================================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 115.09 |========== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 105.59 |============================= AWS m3.medium mech . 27.59 |======== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 34.47 |========== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 181.39 |================================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 139.84 |======================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 548.01 |===================================== AWS m3.medium mech . 2.80 | AWS m3.medium SSD .. 675.51 |============================================= DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 97.54 |======= MeeBox node9 new ... 745.60 |================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 4.96 |========= AWS m3.medium mech . 9.84 |================== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 15.76 |============================= DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 27.76 |=================================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 13.79 |========================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 72.22 |======================= AWS m3.medium mech . 34.02 |=========== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 44.78 |============== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 123.90 |======================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 156.07 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 26.38 |==================== AWS m3.medium mech . 27.81 |===================== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 43.82 |================================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 43.29 |================================= MeeBox node9 new ... 66.33 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 184.93 |===================================== AWS m3.medium mech . 30.47 |====== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 252.59 |================================================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 180.16 |==================================== MeeBox node9 new ... 226.22 |============================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Meebox node9 ...... 48.27 |==================================================== AWS m3.medium SSD . 27.25 |============================= DigitalOcean 1CPU . 22.16 |======================== MeeBox node9 new .. 30.98 |================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 170 |===== AWS m3.medium mech . 319 |========== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 1651 |==================================================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 800 |========================= MeeBox node9 new ... 807 |========================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 33.31 |================================== AWS m3.medium mech . 50.60 |=================================================== AWS m3.medium SSD .. 33.79 |================================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 22.84 |======================= MeeBox node9 new ... 25.27 |========================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Meebox node9 ....... 2008.45 |========================== AWS m3.medium mech . 1777.33 |======================= AWS m3.medium SSD .. 3102.85 |======================================== DigitalOcean 1CPU .. 3847.10 |================================================= MeeBox node9 new ... 2647.52 |==================================