[StratusBen]

Are you using general purpose Droplets? If so, DigitalOcean uses a heterogeneous mix of underlying hardware that has varying degrees of performance. Some of it is years old.

If you're looking for normalized performance, it's my strong suggestion you look at Droplets with dedicated resources. While I believe the disk virtualization layer is always technically "over-committed", these Droplets run on more modern hardware that typically has better and more normalized performance.

If you don't want to do that, an alternative strategy is just to destroy and recreate the general purpose Droplet to try and land on the better hardware by a stroke of luck...though that's probably not worth it.

I hope this helps you!

[silving]

Yes, general purpose Droplet. It's quite a big surprise and disappointment...