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LayerOne no.medium

Tampa

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 18, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
n/a
Median here: 1,033 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
n/a
Median here: 3,571 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
120,469
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 125,081 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$40.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    LayerOne
  • Plan
    no.medium
  • Location
    Tampa
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    160 GB NVMe
  • Network
    10 Gbps
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 18, 2026, 00:29:00 UTC

Latest runs of this plan

Full history of this plan

CPU

Geekbench didn't report a score for this run.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 40.4 GB/s 3 1.11%
Scale higher is better 38.4 GB/s 3 6.56%
Add higher is better 43.7 GB/s 3 4.6%
Triad higher is better 43.8 GB/s 3 6.33%

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 2.46%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 61,928/s 3 0.195%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.01 GB/s 3 3.38%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 13.7 GB/s 3 8.42%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 8.93 GB/s 3 1.67%

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 3.91 ms 3 0.409%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 980/s 3 0.312%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 11.2 ms 3 0.164%
Requests per second, average higher is better 960/s 3 1.1%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 235 MB/s (60,155 IOPS) 235.6 MB/s (60,314 IOPS) 470.6 MB/s (120,469 IOPS)
64K 2.1 GB/s (34,365 IOPS) 2.11 GB/s (34,546 IOPS) 4.21 GB/s (68,911 IOPS)
512K 3.58 GB/s (7,334 IOPS) 3.77 GB/s (7,724 IOPS) 7.35 GB/s (15,058 IOPS)
1M 4.04 GB/s (4,137 IOPS) 4.31 GB/s (4,413 IOPS) 8.35 GB/s (8,550 IOPS)

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

Network

iperf3 didn't report network results for this run.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 2,503 0.4 ms
fdatasync 1,745 0.573 ms
fsync 724 1.38 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 701 1.43 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,309 0.764 ms
fdatasync 1,473 0.679 ms
fsync 715 1.4 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 378 2.64 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 749 1.33 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 380 2.63 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 201 4.98 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 96.7 10.3 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 48.4 20.7 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 763 1.31 ms
write, close, fsync 834 1.2 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 559,689 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) 1 845 1.08 ms 1.73 ms 2.07 ms 3.06 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,234 1.64 ms 3.5 ms 4.92 ms 8.52 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,014 4.6 ms 16.8 ms 29.3 ms 55.4 ms 0
Read only 1 14,624 0.06 ms 0.119 ms 0.17 ms 0.297 ms 0
Read only 8 77,153 0.094 ms 0.181 ms 0.235 ms 0.403 ms 0
Read only 32 78,015 0.359 ms 0.614 ms 0.792 ms 1.48 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.19 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) 1 738 1.25 ms 2 ms 2.55 ms 5.07 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,243 1.71 ms 2.99 ms 5.01 ms 9.02 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,212 4.72 ms 8.71 ms 12 ms 18 ms 0
Read only 1 10,127 0.088 ms 0.174 ms 0.243 ms 0.43 ms 0
Read only 8 57,745 0.126 ms 0.244 ms 0.325 ms 1.02 ms 0
Read only 32 57,454 0.502 ms 0.852 ms 1.12 ms 2.69 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 18.6 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 1 159 3,177 5.99 ms 8.74 ms 13 ms 0
Read/write 8 981 19,616 7.7 ms 13 ms 18 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,252 25,032 24.4 ms 41.9 ms 54.8 ms 0
Read only 1 590 9,437 1.55 ms 2.91 ms 3.89 ms 0
Read only 8 3,105 49,673 2.43 ms 3.89 ms 5.18 ms 0
Read only 32 2,792 44,676 11.2 ms 15.8 ms 19.3 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 7.6 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 70,182 63,801 0.871 ms 1.82 ms 2.91 ms
1:1 set:get 72,558 36,279 0.831 ms 1.79 ms 3.12 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 943 3,378 4,716 469 ms
Express express-postgresjs 13,244 17,852 58,890 43.2 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 12,893 18,546 63,091 42.3 ms
NestJS nestjs 7,331 8,442 36,791 62.3 ms
Nuxt nuxt 11,162 16,391 52,967 57.8 ms
FastAPI fastapi 5,980 7,278 29,663 202 ms
Django django-postgresql 2,986 3,285 8,231 236 ms
Rails rails 4,632 6,227 25,983 86 ms
Laravel laravel 1,264 1,314 2,477 232 ms
Symfony symfony 1,567 1,710 4,553 184 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 3.82 425 ms 545 ms 600 ms 0%
Shop page 3.82 550 ms 746 ms 804 ms 0%
Category page 3.82 355 ms 578 ms 684 ms 0%
Product page 3.82 387 ms 517 ms 555 ms 0%
Product search 3.82 326 ms 459 ms 502 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 3.55 1.71 s 1.99 s 2.05 s 0%
Shop page 3.55 2.18 s 2.54 s 2.62 s 0%
Category page 3.55 1.77 s 2.32 s 2.56 s 0%
Product page 3.55 1.68 s 1.95 s 2.11 s 0%
Product search 3.55 1.51 s 1.79 s 1.88 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 7.41 423 ms 565 ms 618 ms 0%
Cart 7.41 360 ms 487 ms 516 ms 0%
Checkout 7.41 287 ms 386 ms 419 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 6.78 1.7 s 2.06 s 2.19 s 0%
Cart 6.78 1.61 s 1.95 s 2.05 s 0%
Checkout 6.78 1.32 s 1.56 s 1.66 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 64 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 1.67 272 ms 332 ms 544 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.841 130 ms 159 ms 177 ms 0%
Home page 0.841 237 ms 290 ms 515 ms 0%
Categories page 0.412 276 ms 415 ms 560 ms 0%
User activity page 0.412 170 ms 214 ms 218 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 6.77 248 ms 358 ms 621 ms 0%
Topic JSON 3.38 127 ms 164 ms 235 ms 0%
Home page 3.36 227 ms 353 ms 582 ms 0%
Categories page 1.72 265 ms 595 ms 720 ms 0%
User activity page 1.69 157 ms 340 ms 472 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 6.2 1.05 s 1.37 s 1.9 s 0%
Topic JSON 3.15 770 ms 996 ms 1.5 s 0%
Home page 3.15 949 ms 1.35 s 1.86 s 0%
Categories page 1.56 1.03 s 1.61 s 2.24 s 0%
User activity page 1.53 829 ms 1.06 s 1.12 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 136 29.6 ms 54.7 ms 80.8 ms 0%
Topic JSON 68.1 27.2 ms 54.3 ms 82.6 ms 0%
Home page 68.2 29.3 ms 56 ms 82.8 ms 0%
Categories page 34.1 29.8 ms 57.1 ms 83.6 ms 0%
User activity page 34.1 170 ms 230 ms 390 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 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 2,662 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 6.73 42 ms 51 ms 56.1 ms 0%
Post page 16.8 22 ms 29.6 ms 33.6 ms 0%
Tag page 3.36 28.6 ms 36 ms 41.1 ms 0%
Author page 3.36 28.9 ms 36.9 ms 40.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.35 32 ms 43.4 ms 51.9 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 8.96 123 ms 157 ms 177 ms 0%
Post page 22.3 78.4 ms 113 ms 128 ms 0%
Tag page 4.46 75.7 ms 112 ms 126 ms 0%
Author page 4.46 78.8 ms 108 ms 120 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.46 89.3 ms 123 ms 141 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 9.08 445 ms 526 ms 554 ms 0%
Post page 22.7 375 ms 442 ms 474 ms 0%
Tag page 4.55 244 ms 308 ms 334 ms 0%
Author page 4.53 245 ms 301 ms 341 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.53 248 ms 305 ms 336 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.45 42.1 ms 54.6 ms 61 ms 0%
Post editor 10.4 16.2 ms 23.5 ms 27.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 10.4 43.6 ms 56.1 ms 63.5 ms 0%
Member list 3.47 49.7 ms 62.6 ms 75.9 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.98 50 ms 62.6 ms 69 ms 0%
Post editor 15 25.6 ms 34.2 ms 40.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 15 197 ms 249 ms 268 ms 0%
Member list 5 59.4 ms 74.1 ms 80.3 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 519 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.15 108 ms 139 ms 190 ms 0%
Blog index 1.15 385 ms 473 ms 494 ms 0%
Blog post 3.42 38.4 ms 57.2 ms 66 ms 0%
Bread page 3.44 41.5 ms 55.7 ms 64.6 ms 0%
Location page 1.15 40.8 ms 54.1 ms 58.2 ms 0%
Site search 1.15 60.1 ms 103 ms 126 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.43 179 ms 452 ms 540 ms 0%
Blog index 2.45 875 ms 1.41 s 1.58 s 0%
Blog post 7.32 58.7 ms 121 ms 157 ms 0%
Bread page 7.32 65.2 ms 127 ms 159 ms 0%
Location page 2.47 58.8 ms 127 ms 141 ms 0%
Site search 2.42 93.1 ms 229 ms 296 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 3.12 598 ms 923 ms 1.11 s 0%
Blog index 3.18 1.58 s 1.99 s 2.28 s 0%
Blog post 9.31 323 ms 559 ms 767 ms 0%
Bread page 9.32 326 ms 608 ms 869 ms 0%
Location page 3.15 316 ms 494 ms 783 ms 0%
Site search 3.1 370 ms 643 ms 773 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.525 117 ms 146 ms 151 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.08 414 ms 484 ms 553 ms 0%
Page editor 1.59 207 ms 383 ms 462 ms 0%
Image library 0.525 84.8 ms 116 ms 836 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.525 49.9 ms 85.2 ms 92.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.709 307 ms 954 ms 1.18 s 0%
Page explorer 1.43 1.08 s 2.59 s 5.41 s 0%
Page editor 2.13 543 ms 1.23 s 1.48 s 0%
Image library 0.709 224 ms 717 ms 771 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.709 189 ms 501 ms 978 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 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 296 MB, Postgres at 151 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Spec Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Shared vCPU 2.7% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 160 GB NVMe 157.3 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
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6150 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2694 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
2 GiB
Disk reported
157.3 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
2.7% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-139-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
no.medium
Product line
Network Optimized
Location
Tampa
vCPU
4 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
160 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
10 Gbps
Transfer
14 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$40.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.055
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 18, 2026, 00:31:52 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 18, 2026, 00:29:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 18, 2026, 00:30:04 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 18, 2026, 00:30:04 UTC
Completed
Oct 18, 2026, 02:43:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 18, 2026, 02:43:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.12
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