# joedicastro/vps-comparison

A comparison between some VPS providers. It uses Ansible to perform a series of automated benchmark tests over the VPS servers that you specify. It allows the reproducibility of those tests by anyone that wanted to compare these results to their own. All the tests results are available in order to provide independence and transparency.

Repository: https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vps-comparison
Homepage: https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison#automation
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: vps, ansible, comparison, python, hosting, reproducibility, transparency, independence, cloud
Last push: 2018-05-22T11:00:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3450, "days_push": 3025, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1432, forks 77 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:43.027720+00:00)

## What it is
A Python and Ansible-based tool that runs automated benchmark tests across VPS providers and publishes reproducible comparison results. It focuses on European providers' entry-level plans under $5/month.

## Use cases
- compare VPS providers with benchmarks
- run automated performance tests on cloud servers
- reproduce VPS benchmark results
- evaluate cheap VPS hosting plans in Europe
- benchmark disk, network, and CPU on a VPS

## When to choose
- you want reproducible, transparent benchmarks of European VPS providers
- you need an Ansible-based framework to benchmark your own servers

## When to avoid
- you need up-to-date provider comparisons (last release 2018)
- you need benchmarking for non-Linux or non-VPS infrastructure
- you want a GUI or hosted comparison service

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: benchmarking, infrastructure-as-code, developer-tools, monitoring
- domain: cloud-computing, performance, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli
- tags: vps, ansible, cloud-providers, reproducibility, hosting-comparison, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- joedicastro/vps-comparison (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:43.027720+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:01.974447+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - homepage: https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison#automation (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:17.015771+00:00, sha 725988c3aa89)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.