{"id":256789,"date":"2026-05-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/how-to-stress-test-a-vps-with-stress-ng-htop-and-iostat-before-committing-to-a-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:10:08","slug":"how-to-stress-test-a-vps-with-stress-ng-htop-and-iostat-before-committing-to-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/how-to-stress-test-a-vps-with-stress-ng-htop-and-iostat-before-committing-to-a-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stress test a VPS with stress-ng, htop, and iostat before committing to a plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-stress-test-new-virtual-private-servers-with-these-tools-before-wasting-money\/\">How to stress test a VPS with stress-ng, htop, and iostat before committing to a plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-stress-test-new-virtual-private-servers-with-these-tools-before-wasting-money\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-stress-test-new-virtual-private-servers-with-these-tools-before-wasting-money\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spun up a new cheap virtual private server (VPS) for a web app project that, on paper, looked perfectly fine for my needs. Unfortunately, it fell short of the promised specs once I started putting pressure on it. That\u2019s because a VPS, unlike a dedicated server, has shared resources that sometimes don&#8217;t live up to what the provider promised on the order spec sheet.<\/p>\n<p>The CPU, disk, memory, and network are all sitting on infrastructure shared between you and whoever else has a guest VPS sitting on the physical host. If your host machine has inadequate hardware partitioning, your experience will be poor once other users ramp up their resource use.<\/p>\n<p>So, before committing to a provider, I perform a short stress test on the VPS first with some free Linux tools, before I waste any time building on it.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t5 Linux terminal commands that fix most of my system problems<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Essential Linux troubleshooting commands every user should know.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"i-start-by-checking-what-the-vps-actually-gave-me\">\n                        I start by checking what the VPS actually gave me<br \/>\n   &#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-stress-test-new-virtual-private-servers-with-these-tools-before-wasting-money\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to stress test a VPS with stress-ng, htop, and iostat before committing to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/vps-htop-resource-testing-1.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-256789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256793,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256789\/revisions\/256793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}