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UpCloud Starter 4 vCPU / 8 GB

Chicago #1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 18, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,196
Faster than 63% of 4 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
4,095
Faster than 67% of 4 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
19,952
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€24.00 EUR
146 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    UpCloud
  • Plan
    Starter 4 vCPU / 8 GB
  • Location
    Chicago #1
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    40 GB
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    01000000-0000-4000-8000-000030240200
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 18, 2026, 08:16:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,196 4,095 Geekbench Browser

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
1,385
102nd of 242
3,912
36th of 167
Navigation
1,231
141st of 242
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,074
136th of 242
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,240
130th of 242
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,128
119th of 242
4,291
41st of 167
Clang
1,148
110th of 242
4,407
45th of 167
Text Processing
1,101
117th of 242
3,679
50th of 167
Asset Compression
1,268
113th of 242
4,962
41st of 167
HDR
942
148th of 242
2,879
63rd of 167
Photo Editor
1,271
127th of 242
4,379
42nd of 167
Ray Tracer
1,258
108th of 242
4,648
46th of 167
Structure from Motion
1,275
133rd of 242
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,318
85th of 242
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,095
140th of 242
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,347
98th of 242
Single-core only
Video Player
1,146
141st of 242
Single-core only

Rank among the 242 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 51.6 GB/s 3 25.7%
Scale higher is better 35.7 GB/s 3 19.5%
Add higher is better 36.9 GB/s 3 24%
Triad higher is better 37.8 GB/s 3 24.9%

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 936/s 3 0.0913%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 60,847/s 3 0.155%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.79 GB/s 3 0.564%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 14.2 GB/s 3 0.236%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 7.2 GB/s 3 0.261%

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 4.09 ms 3 0.113%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 939/s 3 0.213%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 9.02 ms 3 1.95%
Requests per second, average higher is better 928/s 3 0.0662%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 38.9 MB/s (9,964 IOPS) 39 MB/s (9,988 IOPS) 77.9 MB/s (19,952 IOPS)
64K 399.2 MB/s (6,386 IOPS) 401.3 MB/s (6,420 IOPS) 800.5 MB/s (12,806 IOPS)
512K 382.4 MB/s (764 IOPS) 402.7 MB/s (805 IOPS) 785.1 MB/s (1,569 IOPS)
1M 379.4 MB/s (379 IOPS) 404.7 MB/s (404 IOPS) 784.1 MB/s (783 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 1.04 Gbps 1.11 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.09 Gbps 1.11 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 820 Mbps 1 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.09 Gbps 1.12 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.16 Gbps 1.16 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 4,080 0.245 ms
fdatasync 4,068 0.246 ms
fsync 2,326 0.43 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,582 0.387 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,100 0.476 ms
fdatasync 3,599 0.278 ms
fsync 2,146 0.466 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,346 0.743 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,358 0.424 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,260 0.794 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 733 1.36 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 361 2.77 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 172 5.82 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,325 0.43 ms
write, close, fsync 2,337 0.428 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 542,629 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 1,453 0.655 ms 0.876 ms 1.23 ms 9.35 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,475 1.21 ms 2.59 ms 4.42 ms 28.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,296 4.27 ms 15.7 ms 29.9 ms 62.2 ms 0
Read only 1 19,089 0.051 ms 0.068 ms 0.081 ms 0.143 ms 0
Read only 8 73,323 0.099 ms 0.183 ms 0.235 ms 0.376 ms 0
Read only 32 87,339 0.315 ms 0.523 ms 0.653 ms 1.15 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.52 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 1,171 0.71 ms 1.03 ms 2.82 ms 34.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,160 1.28 ms 2.15 ms 12 ms 92 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,915 4.3 ms 9.8 ms 88.1 ms 112 ms 0
Read only 1 15,027 0.06 ms 0.084 ms 0.105 ms 0.265 ms 0
Read only 8 55,720 0.131 ms 0.24 ms 0.309 ms 0.919 ms 0
Read only 32 64,068 0.442 ms 0.712 ms 0.907 ms 1.86 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 17.7 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 1 320 6,408 2.76 ms 4.03 ms 11.7 ms 0
Read/write 8 965 19,299 7.04 ms 13.5 ms 49.2 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,259 25,175 24.4 ms 42.6 ms 56.8 ms 0
Read only 1 781 12,500 1.27 ms 1.55 ms 1.89 ms 0
Read only 8 3,162 50,588 2.43 ms 3.49 ms 4.82 ms 0
Read only 32 2,972 47,553 10.7 ms 13.7 ms 16.7 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 6.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 48,701 44,273 1.28 ms 2.58 ms 2.91 ms
1:1 set:get 48,372 24,186 1.29 ms 2.58 ms 2.9 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 4 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 1,084 4,333 6,155 441 ms
Express express-postgresjs 15,896 20,863 48,284 36.1 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 15,108 21,870 48,836 36.6 ms
NestJS nestjs 8,902 10,519 35,123 67.1 ms
Nuxt nuxt 13,057 20,030 49,416 59.2 ms
FastAPI fastapi 7,487 9,069 31,280 139 ms
Django django-postgresql 3,532 4,151 9,757 127 ms
Rails rails 5,309 7,325 26,344 67.1 ms
Laravel laravel 1,401 1,473 3,255 200 ms
Symfony symfony 1,813 2,013 6,169 153 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 4.22 371 ms 505 ms 556 ms 0%
Shop page 4.22 491 ms 647 ms 720 ms 0%
Category page 4.22 332 ms 551 ms 624 ms 0%
Product page 4.22 357 ms 479 ms 517 ms 0%
Product search 4.22 316 ms 417 ms 462 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 3.9 1.55 s 1.79 s 1.91 s 0%
Shop page 3.9 2.02 s 2.31 s 2.39 s 0%
Category page 3.9 1.62 s 2.01 s 2.16 s 0%
Product page 3.9 1.51 s 1.7 s 1.79 s 0%
Product search 3.9 1.39 s 1.56 s 1.62 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 7.98 388 ms 509 ms 557 ms 0%
Cart 7.98 343 ms 453 ms 505 ms 0%
Checkout 7.98 273 ms 363 ms 403 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 7.45 1.57 s 1.85 s 1.94 s 0%
Cart 7.45 1.47 s 1.69 s 1.76 s 0%
Checkout 7.45 1.23 s 1.44 s 1.5 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 66 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 2.08 204 ms 270 ms 620 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.06 101 ms 119 ms 129 ms 0%
Home page 1.06 183 ms 258 ms 426 ms 0%
Categories page 0.529 215 ms 260 ms 583 ms 0%
User activity page 0.513 128 ms 319 ms 435 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 7.27 241 ms 284 ms 680 ms 0%
Topic JSON 3.66 121 ms 146 ms 276 ms 0%
Home page 3.64 215 ms 260 ms 544 ms 0%
Categories page 1.85 250 ms 317 ms 785 ms 0%
User activity page 1.81 155 ms 255 ms 496 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 6.6 996 ms 1.38 s 1.85 s 0%
Topic JSON 3.32 736 ms 974 ms 1.12 s 0%
Home page 3.27 935 ms 1.4 s 1.97 s 0%
Categories page 1.67 992 ms 1.4 s 1.7 s 0%
User activity page 1.62 790 ms 1 s 1.48 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 134 29.6 ms 60.7 ms 94.9 ms 0%
Topic JSON 67 27.1 ms 57.3 ms 93.2 ms 0%
Home page 67 29.6 ms 62.3 ms 92.5 ms 0%
Categories page 33.5 28.5 ms 55.8 ms 95.4 ms 0%
User activity page 33.5 169 ms 253 ms 452 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. Discourse ran with 8 app workers and 2048 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 8 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,748 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 8.84 32.6 ms 36.5 ms 41.4 ms 0%
Post page 22.1 17.8 ms 21.5 ms 26.6 ms 0%
Tag page 4.41 21.5 ms 25.2 ms 32.3 ms 0%
Author page 4.41 21.7 ms 24.8 ms 27 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.41 24.2 ms 29.5 ms 31.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 10.8 97.2 ms 120 ms 134 ms 0%
Post page 27 69.4 ms 94 ms 102 ms 0%
Tag page 5.39 60.3 ms 79.8 ms 86 ms 0%
Author page 5.39 62.2 ms 83.4 ms 91.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.39 68.7 ms 91.4 ms 99.9 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 10.7 380 ms 436 ms 468 ms 0%
Post page 26.9 315 ms 370 ms 391 ms 0%
Tag page 5.36 211 ms 259 ms 278 ms 0%
Author page 5.36 206 ms 253 ms 271 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.35 212 ms 264 ms 284 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.77 31.2 ms 35.7 ms 41.4 ms 0%
Post editor 14.3 11.9 ms 15 ms 17.7 ms 0%
Saving a draft 14.3 30.3 ms 42.1 ms 64.4 ms 0%
Member list 4.77 39.4 ms 45.6 ms 51.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 6.15 39.2 ms 47.5 ms 50.6 ms 0%
Post editor 18.5 19.2 ms 24.7 ms 26.8 ms 0%
Saving a draft 18.5 163 ms 206 ms 223 ms 0%
Member list 6.2 50.1 ms 59.3 ms 63.7 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 551 MB and MySQL at 624 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.88 71 ms 77.2 ms 79.2 ms 0%
Blog index 1.86 230 ms 245 ms 247 ms 0%
Blog post 5.59 24.2 ms 36.3 ms 39.8 ms 0%
Bread page 5.61 26.6 ms 29.9 ms 31.2 ms 0%
Location page 1.86 25.5 ms 28.4 ms 29.6 ms 0%
Site search 1.86 40.1 ms 66.9 ms 71.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.54 222 ms 327 ms 427 ms 0%
Blog index 2.56 863 ms 1.19 s 1.21 s 0%
Blog post 7.66 61.2 ms 111 ms 139 ms 0%
Bread page 7.65 64.7 ms 105 ms 120 ms 0%
Location page 2.56 56.3 ms 99.6 ms 108 ms 0%
Site search 2.56 90.6 ms 219 ms 276 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.8 668 ms 886 ms 976 ms 0%
Blog index 2.82 1.8 s 2.05 s 2.19 s 0%
Blog post 8.34 361 ms 586 ms 749 ms 0%
Bread page 8.34 377 ms 601 ms 723 ms 0%
Location page 2.77 381 ms 652 ms 782 ms 0%
Site search 2.75 446 ms 696 ms 841 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.678 80.8 ms 90.9 ms 99.4 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.39 334 ms 459 ms 582 ms 0%
Page editor 2.08 164 ms 202 ms 378 ms 0%
Image library 0.695 61.1 ms 66.5 ms 549 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.678 34.4 ms 71.2 ms 79.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.989 289 ms 680 ms 732 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.01 874 ms 1.43 s 2.37 s 0%
Page editor 3.05 429 ms 837 ms 961 ms 0%
Image library 1.01 283 ms 610 ms 695 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.989 98.5 ms 390 ms 458 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 20 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 298 MB, Postgres at 151 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Shared vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.7 GiB
Storage 40 GB 39.3 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
AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2895 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
7.7 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
39.3 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-137-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Starter 4 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line
Starter
Location
Chicago #1
vCPU
4 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
40 GB
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
2.05 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€24.00 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.036 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 18, 2026, 08:17:25 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 18, 2026, 08:16:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 18, 2026, 08:17:19 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 18, 2026, 08:17:19 UTC
Completed
Oct 18, 2026, 09:52:20 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 18, 2026, 09:52:20 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.057 EUR
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