Unveiling the Best Budget Server for Odoo: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode & AWS Face Off

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.

Server Overview on My Cloudpepper

After the servers were provisioned, we proceeded to create an Odoo instance for each of the 8 servers.

Odoo Instance overview with Vultr instance being created.

Server
Time needed to create Instance
DigitalOcean Basic Reg. 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month58s
DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $7 / month41s
Vultr Regular 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $5 / month47s
Vultr High Frequency 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $6 / month36s
Vultr High Performance AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $6 / month32s
Vultr High Performance Intel 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $6 / month49s
Linode Nanode 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $5 / month38s
AWS t2.micro 1vCPU 1GB RAM@ $9.6 / month41s

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.

Creation of Odoo staging instance

Server
Time needed to create Staging Instance
DigitalOcean Basic Reg. 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month39s
DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $7 / month28s
Vultr Regular 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $5 / month34s
Vultr High Frequency 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month27s
Vultr High Performance AMD 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month23s
Vultr High Performance Intel 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $6 / month29s
Linode Nanode 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $5 / month26s
AWS t2.micro 1vCPU 1GB RAM @ $9.6 / month31s

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.

From the app screen...

Odoo 16 app overview - Installing ecommerce

… till the welcome screen.