[nodesocket]

The server benchmarked on SoftLayer is not dedicated, it is on their CloudLayer platform (virtual machines).

[codewright]

Then this is even sillier, SoftLayer non-dedi is pointless, they're notorious for being overpriced as a brand.

[nodesocket]

Pricing aside, we were stunned at the performance difference. Never expected 3.2X improved performance from DigitalOcean.

[codewright]

They're not saturated yet.

DO's CPU performance has generally been worse than Linode's in benchmarks and that was before the recent Linode upgrade so they're probably even further behind now.

It's not that DO is good, it's that SoftLayer is terrible. Don't use SoftLayer as a benchmark for anything but wasting your money.

Also these kinds of blog posts are a waste of time.

http://serverbear.com/