Vultr VPS Honolulu – 1 vCPU / 1.7GB RAM Benchmarked: Strong I/O & Fast U.S. Network – Ideal for Lightweight Hosting
Vultr VPS Review – Honolulu, USA (1 vCPU / 1.7GB RAM)
Vultr is a popular cloud hosting provider known for its global data center presence, transparent pricing, and developer-friendly platform. In this test, we review a Vultr VPS located in Honolulu, Hawaii — a unique location choice for latency-sensitive U.S. West traffic and Pacific routing.
This VPS instance runs on a 1 vCPU AMD EPYC Rome processor, with 1.7GB RAM, 25.7GB SSD storage, and the BBR TCP congestion control algorithm enabled. It operates on AlmaLinux 8.10, backed by KVM virtualization.
✅ Performance Overview (via bench.sh)
- CPU & Memory:
The AMD EPYC Rome core delivers stable performance at 1996 MHz — solid for general tasks, lightweight web servers, or microservices.
Memory usage remained low, showing efficiency during idle and benchmarking. - Disk I/O Performance:mathematica
I/O Speed (avg): 623.3 MB/s
The SSD delivers strong I/O performance, suitable for databases, WordPress, and file-heavy applications.- Network Speed Tests:
- U.S. (Local):
- Upload: 6757 Mbps, Download: 3912 Mbps, Latency: 0.41 ms
- 🌟 Excellent for U.S.-based users.
- Europe:
- Paris: 2.3 Gbps up / 1 Gbps down
- Amsterdam: 463 Mbps up / 1.3 Gbps down
- Asia:
- Tokyo: 531 Mbps up / 1.7 Gbps down
- Singapore & Hong Kong show limited upstream capacity.
- U.S. (Local):
🎯 Best Use Cases
This Vultr VPS is well-suited for:
- Lightweight web hosting (e.g., personal sites, blogs)
- VPN and proxy setups (especially U.S. West Coast clients)
- Dev/test environments or microservices
- CDN edge nodes or latency-sensitive applications within the U.S.
⭐ Overall Score: 8.4 / 10
✅ Great disk I/O
✅ Fast U.S. connectivity
⚠️ Limited Asia outbound upload
⚠️ 1 vCPU may bottleneck under heavier loads
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