# Performance on new DigitalOcean Premium droplets
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-on-new-digitalocean-premium-droplets/181081
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [February 25, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-on-new-digitalocean-premium-droplets/181081 "2021-02-25T02:50:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-on-new-digitalocean-premium-droplets/181081/1 "2021-02-25T02:50:08Z")
Hello everyone,
I’m curious to know if someone has already tested the new premium droplets of DigitalOcean that offer both NVMe SSD and quicker CPUs. As I asume mostly have their Discourse deployed on Droplets (as do I) probably someone already did the resizing.
I am not able to resize my instance and will only be capable to test in the weekend, but if the gains are big enough I might change the region just to do it. 😅
> More details: [Introducing Premium Droplets with faster Intel and AMD CPUs and NVMe SSD | DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/premium-droplets-intel-cascade-lake-amd-epyc-rome)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-on-new-digitalocean-premium-droplets/181081/2 "2021-02-25T03:49:11Z")
Reading the specs it is likely there will be a noticeable difference
Ram speed makes a reasonable difference, top clock speed as well
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-on-new-digitalocean-premium-droplets/181081/3 "2021-02-25T04:09:11Z")
I was thinking exactly that. Discourse should benefit a lot from these. Now to see what is better, slightly lower clock speed for faster RAM or viceversa.
Other than rebuilding, what could be a good way to test it? I’m thinking on some stress testing with something like K6 or JMeter
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 4:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-on-new-digitalocean-premium-droplets/181081/4 "2021-02-25T04:10:39Z")
The ideal test is probably discourse bench:
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Setting it up is a bit tricky, I should at some point make a Dockerfile for it.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-on-new-digitalocean-premium-droplets/181081/5 "2021-02-25T15:35:36Z")
One easy way to test the all around hosting performance @codinghorror uses is timing rebuilds. I went ahead and did a 4 way test in Digital Ocean:
| Droplet Type | Price | Time |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | $5 | 5m18.476s |
| Basic Intel Premium | $6 | 4m19.710s |
| Basic AMD Premium | $6 | 3m45.489s |
| CPU Optimized | $40 | 3m33.580s |
So, it looks like, for people on the $5 droplet, moving to a $6 AMD one is a pretty good deal.