Choosing the right cloud provider for hosting your Odoo instance is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and smooth operations. With numerous options available, selecting the best one can be a daunting task. In this comparison, we evaluate the performance of Odoo on budget servers of four popular cloud providers: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode and AWS.
To make this comparison as fair and accurate as possible, we have selected servers in the price range of $5 - $9.6/month. We will put these servers through four tests to evaluate their performance in various Odoo-related tasks and see whether adding an extra dollar or two makes a significant difference in performance.
Test 1: Odoo Instance Deployment Time with Cloudpepper
For this test we used Cloudpepper to create and provision 8 servers for Odoo with DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode and AWS.
After the servers were provisioned, we proceeded to create an Odoo instance for each of the 8 servers.
Server | Time needed to create Instance |
| DigitalOcean Basic Reg. 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month | 58s |
| DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $7 / month | 41s |
| Vultr Regular 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $5 / month | 47s |
| Vultr High Frequency 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $6 / month | 36s |
| Vultr High Performance AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $6 / month | 32s |
| Vultr High Performance Intel 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $6 / month | 49s |
| Linode Nanode 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $5 / month | 38s |
| AWS t2.micro 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $9.6 / month | 41s |
Results
1. Vultr High Performance AMD
2. Vultr High Frequency
3. Linode Nanode
Test 2: Odoo Staging Instance Creation Time with Cloudpepper
For each of the Odoo instances, we created a staging instance from the Cloudpepper dashboard which duplicates the main instance for testing and timed how long it took for the staging instance to be ready.
Server | Time needed to create Staging Instance |
| DigitalOcean Basic Reg. 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month | 39s |
| DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $7 / month | 28s |
| Vultr Regular 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $5 / month | 34s |
| Vultr High Frequency 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month | 27s |
| Vultr High Performance AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month | 23s |
| Vultr High Performance Intel 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month | 29s |
| Linode Nanode 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $5 / month | 26s |
| AWS t2.micro 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $9.6 / month | 31s |
Results
1. Vultr High Performance AMD
2. Linode Nanode
3. Vultr High Frequency
Test 3: Odoo E-commerce Module Activation Time
After your Odoo instance is ready, you can choose which apps to install. In this test we measured how long it took to activate the eCommerce module.
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