This seems to be a very unscientific approach. It doesn't appear that the tests were run on a multitude of machines. The digital ocean machine could've had malf

This seems to be a very unscientific approach. It doesn't appear that the tests were run on a multitude of machines. The digital ocean machine could've had malfunctioning hardware, or been a rare occurrence of a overloaded server. While I'd say this may not likely be the case, but you'd have to be a fool to make a decision based on just one machine from each provider.