[ihowlatthemoon]

VPSBench result:

Before

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  CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz
  Number of cores: 8
  CPU frequency:  2266.788 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 988 MB
  Total amount of swap: 255 MB
  System uptime:   8 days, 12:03,
  I/O speed:  69.9 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 8.96s
  Download 100MB file: 47.2MB/s

After

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  CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
  Number of cores: 2
  CPU frequency:  2800.086 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 1993 MB
  Total amount of swap: 255 MB
  System uptime:   2 min,
  I/O speed:  638 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 5.10s
  Download 100MB file: 146MB/s

Test: https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench

[pdq]

Here is DigitalOcean's $5/month plan:

  CPU model:  QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0
  Number of cores: 1
  CPU frequency:  2299.998 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 491 MB
  Total amount of swap: 0 MB
  System uptime:   276 days, 5:04,       
  I/O speed:  253 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 7.83s
  Download 100MB file: 56.0MB/s

Here is Vultr's $5/month plan:

  CPU model:  Vultr Virtual CPU 2
  Number of cores: 1
  CPU frequency:  3399.994 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 490 MB
  Total amount of swap: 509 MB
  System uptime:   28 days, 3:15,       
  I/O speed:  485 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 3.17s
  Download 100MB file: 58.2MB/s