of course, I am not aware of Digital Ocean's VM instance sizes, and whether their 2 core / 4 GB is fully dedicated/100% provisioned or burstable like in case of Azure ... if fully dedicated/not burstable then that would be a good cost advantage in favor of Digital Ocean, which is however anyway not a hosting provider I am looking at due to many other PaaS services we are after ..
of course, I am not aware of Digital Ocean's VM instance sizes, and whether their 2 core / 4 GB is fully dedicated/100% provisioned or burstable like in case of Azure ... if fully dedicated/not burstable then that would be a good cost advantage in favor of Digital Ocean, which is however anyway not a hosting provider I am looking at due to many other PaaS services we are after ..
Azure seems to suffer huge issues with disc performance (post from Nov 10, 2020) bunnyshell.com/blog/aws-google-clo...
DigitalOcean trumps all of the big 3, but Azure stands out in a bad way.
Atlas IOPS stats for Azure confirm this.