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DigitalOcean Basic AMD 2 vCPU / 2 GB

New York 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 14, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
917
Faster than 37% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
46,231
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$21.00
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Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Basic AMD 2 vCPU / 2 GB
  • Location
    New York 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    2 GB
  • Storage
    60 GB NVMe
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 14, 2026, 12:15:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 917 Skipped Geekbench Browser

Multi-core was skipped because Geekbench 7 needs about 3.1 GB of free memory to run 2 threads, and this server didn't have that much. Single-core needs much less, so it still ran.

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Geekbench 7 workloads

Workload Single-core Multi-core
File Compression
1,072
100th of 156
Single-core only
Navigation
939
132nd of 156
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
753
134th of 156
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
982
118th of 156
Single-core only
Photo Library
877
102nd of 156
Single-core only
Clang
800
124th of 156
Single-core only
Text Processing
798
126th of 156
Single-core only
Asset Compression
948
116th of 156
Single-core only
HDR
750
130th of 156
Single-core only
Photo Editor
1,033
102nd of 156
Single-core only
Ray Tracer
835
128th of 156
Single-core only
Structure from Motion
1,032
113th of 156
Single-core only
Game Physics
994
106th of 156
Single-core only
Video Encoder
895
113th of 156
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,092
101st of 156
Single-core only
Video Player
976
108th of 156
Single-core only

Rank among the 156 runs with Geekbench 7 workload scores. Bars are relative to the best run. Geekbench doesn't run every workload multi-core, so some rows only have a single-core score.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 34.8 GB/s 3 3.06%
Scale higher is better 25.4 GB/s 3 3.6%
Add higher is better 26.8 GB/s 3 3.08%
Triad higher is better 27.2 GB/s 3 2.19%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 373/s 3 2.27%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 23,660/s 3 3.86%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.12 GB/s 3 1.71%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 5.71 GB/s 3 1.07%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.93 GB/s 3 3.14%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 5.09 ms 3 1.73%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 391/s 3 3.85%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 12.4 ms 3 4.5%
Requests per second, average higher is better 371/s 3 2.26%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 90.2 MB/s (23,085 IOPS) 90.4 MB/s (23,146 IOPS) 180.6 MB/s (46,231 IOPS)
64K 612.8 MB/s (9,805 IOPS) 616.1 MB/s (9,857 IOPS) 1.2 GB/s (19,662 IOPS)
512K 458.7 MB/s (917 IOPS) 483.1 MB/s (966 IOPS) 941.8 MB/s (1,883 IOPS)
1M 233.6 MB/s (233 IOPS) 249.2 MB/s (249 IOPS) 482.8 MB/s (482 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 1.88 Gbps 1.79 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.86 Gbps 1.79 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 805 Mbps 809 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.53 Gbps 1.31 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.01 Gbps 1.89 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 3,888 0.257 ms
fdatasync 3,705 0.27 ms
fsync 1,346 0.743 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,510 0.662 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,811 0.552 ms
fdatasync 3,018 0.331 ms
fsync 1,438 0.696 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 782 1.28 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 1,181 0.846 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 631 1.59 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 372 2.69 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 194 5.15 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 97.6 10.2 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,508 0.663 ms
write, close, fsync 1,389 0.72 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 454,677 0.002 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,185 0.758 ms 1.19 ms 2.58 ms 5.75 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,748 2.51 ms 5.26 ms 9.45 ms 29.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,742 8.9 ms 28.8 ms 49 ms 90.3 ms 0
Read only 1 17,156 0.053 ms 0.088 ms 0.115 ms 0.247 ms 0
Read only 8 33,716 0.209 ms 0.37 ms 0.494 ms 1.8 ms 0
Read only 32 32,234 0.785 ms 1.61 ms 2.37 ms 5.16 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.97 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 694 1.31 ms 2.1 ms 5.4 ms 11.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,035 3.48 ms 7.65 ms 12.2 ms 19.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,474 11.9 ms 22.1 ms 30 ms 42.8 ms 0
Read only 1 2,519 0.353 ms 0.748 ms 1.59 ms 2.75 ms 0
Read only 8 16,079 0.381 ms 1.17 ms 2.14 ms 3.69 ms 0
Read only 32 18,264 1.39 ms 3.64 ms 5.34 ms 9.05 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 31.9 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 184 3,689 5 ms 8.28 ms 17 ms 0
Read/write 8 508 10,161 15.3 ms 24.4 ms 32.5 ms 0
Read/write 32 554 11,086 55.8 ms 101 ms 128 ms 0
Read only 1 592 9,467 1.61 ms 2.26 ms 2.76 ms 0
Read only 8 1,084 17,348 7.04 ms 10.3 ms 12.3 ms 0
Read only 32 964 15,431 32.5 ms 44.2 ms 51.9 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 12.6 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 42,078 38,252 1.3 ms 4.03 ms 5.86 ms
1:1 set:get 44,109 22,054 1.14 ms 3.89 ms 5.6 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs 366 1,298 2,016 1.68 s
Express express-postgresjs 5,237 6,690 18,468 115 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,124 8,023 19,352 107 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,784 3,277 10,640 155 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,713 7,290 17,701 118 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,163 2,948 11,062 704 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,223 1,268 3,215 322 ms
Rails rails 1,858 2,631 8,947 206 ms
Laravel laravel 459 486 1,037 681 ms
Symfony symfony 607 663 2,274 468 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

Web apps

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.42 1.13 s 1.35 s 1.41 s 0%
Shop page 1.42 1.49 s 1.72 s 1.81 s 0%
Category page 1.42 899 ms 1.55 s 1.74 s 0%
Product page 1.42 1.03 s 1.17 s 1.25 s 0%
Product search 1.42 887 ms 1.08 s 1.16 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.39 4.15 s 5.06 s 5.34 s 0%
Shop page 1.39 5.67 s 6.47 s 6.61 s 0%
Category page 1.39 4.83 s 5.99 s 6.32 s 0%
Product page 1.39 4.01 s 4.39 s 4.47 s 0%
Product search 1.39 3.79 s 4.04 s 4.08 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.79 1.16 s 1.42 s 1.54 s 0%
Cart 2.79 936 ms 1.16 s 1.26 s 0%
Checkout 2.79 727 ms 900 ms 1.01 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.54 4.36 s 5.6 s 5.8 s 0%
Cart 2.54 4.45 s 5.05 s 5.22 s 0%
Checkout 2.54 3.51 s 4.07 s 4.23 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 69 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Discourse

Signed in

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Topic page 1.33 330 ms 480 ms 681 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.673 172 ms 227 ms 467 ms 0%
Home page 0.673 292 ms 399 ms 579 ms 0%
Categories page 0.345 353 ms 431 ms 525 ms 0%
User activity page 0.328 190 ms 295 ms 299 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 1.97 839 ms 1.33 s 1.65 s 0%
Topic JSON 0.975 467 ms 680 ms 841 ms 0%
Home page 0.975 773 ms 1.63 s 2.01 s 0%
Categories page 0.52 878 ms 1.29 s 1.96 s 0%
User activity page 0.488 526 ms 860 ms 1.03 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.19 1.96 s 2.49 s 2.85 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.09 1.7 s 2.14 s 2.31 s 0%
Home page 1.09 1.89 s 2.35 s 2.58 s 0%
Categories page 0.547 1.96 s 2.41 s 2.43 s 0%
User activity page 0.547 1.62 s 2.13 s 2.23 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 45.1 102 ms 244 ms 332 ms 0%
Topic JSON 22.6 98.9 ms 237 ms 313 ms 0%
Home page 22.6 102 ms 238 ms 335 ms 0%
Categories page 11.3 104 ms 250 ms 385 ms 0%
User activity page 11.3 309 ms 495 ms 643 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 s per level, after a 22 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 256 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 2 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and used up to 497 MB of it. The container peaked at 1,503 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 5.46 52.9 ms 69.3 ms 78.4 ms 0%
Post page 13.6 27 ms 35.2 ms 40.7 ms 0%
Tag page 2.73 33.9 ms 43.8 ms 59.9 ms 0%
Author page 2.71 35.6 ms 47.6 ms 64.4 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.71 40.8 ms 53.7 ms 61.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 6.18 172 ms 242 ms 287 ms 0%
Post page 15.4 116 ms 170 ms 207 ms 0%
Tag page 3.11 104 ms 160 ms 198 ms 0%
Author page 3.09 111 ms 165 ms 214 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.07 114 ms 165 ms 188 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 6.34 635 ms 788 ms 880 ms 0%
Post page 15.9 527 ms 676 ms 725 ms 0%
Tag page 3.18 349 ms 444 ms 512 ms 0%
Author page 3.2 345 ms 474 ms 526 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.18 353 ms 477 ms 576 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 2.85 50.6 ms 70.7 ms 109 ms 0%
Post editor 8.6 19.3 ms 29 ms 42.4 ms 0%
Saving a draft 8.6 51.1 ms 73 ms 96.5 ms 0%
Member list 2.87 61.8 ms 81.4 ms 93.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.24 72.5 ms 104 ms 138 ms 0%
Post editor 9.75 35 ms 54.4 ms 91.8 ms 0%
Saving a draft 9.78 302 ms 427 ms 494 ms 0%
Member list 3.26 88 ms 123 ms 159 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Ghost ran the way its ghost-docker setup runs it: one Node process, and MySQL with its stock 128 MB buffer pool. Memory peaked with Ghost at 346 MB and MySQL at 585 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.1 122 ms 154 ms 167 ms 0%
Blog index 1.1 411 ms 501 ms 549 ms 0%
Blog post 3.27 37.2 ms 60.7 ms 76.7 ms 0%
Bread page 3.29 42.1 ms 53.6 ms 60.8 ms 0%
Location page 1.1 39.5 ms 51.3 ms 57.6 ms 0%
Site search 1.1 57.9 ms 101 ms 113 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.85 306 ms 430 ms 488 ms 0%
Blog index 1.88 974 ms 1.45 s 1.51 s 0%
Blog post 5.56 89.4 ms 156 ms 188 ms 0%
Bread page 5.61 93.5 ms 147 ms 165 ms 0%
Location page 1.9 91.8 ms 140 ms 212 ms 0%
Site search 1.85 130 ms 279 ms 323 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.02 912 ms 1.41 s 1.51 s 0%
Blog index 2.04 2.24 s 2.74 s 3.22 s 0%
Blog post 6.08 503 ms 971 ms 1.64 s 0%
Bread page 6.08 484 ms 932 ms 1.4 s 0%
Location page 2.07 458 ms 822 ms 1.27 s 0%
Site search 2.04 575 ms 1.05 s 1.24 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.412 125 ms 177 ms 179 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.856 546 ms 804 ms 969 ms 0%
Page editor 1.28 258 ms 387 ms 453 ms 0%
Image library 0.428 94.3 ms 137 ms 907 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.412 51.6 ms 134 ms 164 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.67 491 ms 657 ms 946 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.39 1.55 s 2.28 s 2.7 s 0%
Page editor 2.06 642 ms 1.02 s 1.1 s 0%
Image library 0.686 308 ms 682 ms 772 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.67 143 ms 374 ms 417 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 21 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Wagtail ran the way bakerydemo ships it: uWSGI with 2 workers of 4 threads each, whatever the box, and Postgres and Redis on stock settings. Memory peaked with Wagtail at 294 MB, Postgres at 175 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0.2% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 2 GB 1.9 GiB
Storage 60 GB NVMe 58 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
DO-Premium-AMD
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
1996 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
1.9 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
58 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.2% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-142-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Basic AMD 2 vCPU / 2 GB
Product line
Basic AMD
Location
New York 1
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
2 GB
Storage
60 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
3 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$21.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.031
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 14, 2026, 12:17:03 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 14, 2026, 12:15:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 14, 2026, 12:16:18 UTC
Completed
Oct 14, 2026, 13:52:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 14, 2026, 13:52:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.051
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