Stories by gsgreen

Google Cloud and DigitalOcean Behaved Differently Under Repeated Deployments

DigitalOcean NYC looked fine – until we ran it repeatedly (Singapore held up)

DigitalOcean's NYC region looked fine – until we ran it again

Coding agents expose this: same VPS, 3 runs, ~65% drift

Fast VPS ≠ reliable: we tested 24/7 workloads – consistency beat peak speed

Most VPS benchmarks are wrong – performance drops after the first run

Same AWS plan, same continent – different behavior under load

Same AWS t3.medium, 27-point stability gap across regions under load

Why AWS EC2 isn't the fastest–but is the most consistent (230 benchmarks)