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DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB

New York 3

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 9, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
51,201
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
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Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    New York 3
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB NVMe
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 9, 2026, 15:10:00 UTC
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CPU

Geekbench was skipped because this plan has less than 2 GB of RAM, which isn't enough for Geekbench 7 to run without swap.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 24.3 GB/s 3 3.17%
Scale higher is better 15.8 GB/s 3 3.68%
Add higher is better 17.8 GB/s 3 2.55%
Triad higher is better 18.4 GB/s 3 2.4%

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 202/s 3 2.76%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 13,109/s 3 6.73%
SHA-256 higher is better 560 MB/s 3 5.38%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.09 GB/s 3 2.23%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.58 GB/s 3 3.65%

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 4.62 ms 3 0.2%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 215/s 3 1.17%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 9.94 ms 3 3.71%
Requests per second, average higher is better 207/s 3 0.578%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 99.9 MB/s (25,567 IOPS) 100.1 MB/s (25,634 IOPS) 200 MB/s (51,201 IOPS)
64K 713.2 MB/s (11,411 IOPS) 717 MB/s (11,471 IOPS) 1.4 GB/s (22,882 IOPS)
512K 300.1 MB/s (600 IOPS) 316.1 MB/s (632 IOPS) 616.2 MB/s (1,232 IOPS)
1M 139.4 MB/s (139 IOPS) 148.7 MB/s (148 IOPS) 288.1 MB/s (287 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 1.89 Gbps 1.76 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.82 Gbps 1.79 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 747 Mbps 733 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.88 Gbps 1.76 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 4,190 0.239 ms
fdatasync 4,068 0.246 ms
fsync 1,066 0.938 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,331 0.751 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,991 0.502 ms
fdatasync 3,298 0.303 ms
fsync 1,366 0.732 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 846 1.18 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 1,580 0.633 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 873 1.15 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 493 2.03 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 232 4.31 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 143 7 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,676 0.596 ms
write, close, fsync 1,289 0.776 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 450,468 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 1,456 0.617 ms 0.958 ms 1.93 ms 4.76 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,079 3.46 ms 6.43 ms 9.29 ms 21.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,827 14.1 ms 39.2 ms 66 ms 117 ms 0
Read only 1 18,366 0.048 ms 0.08 ms 0.107 ms 0.409 ms 0
Read only 8 20,036 0.334 ms 0.637 ms 0.824 ms 1.66 ms 0
Read only 32 18,146 1.45 ms 2.46 ms 3.15 ms 5.24 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.5 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) 1 799 1.16 ms 1.88 ms 4.57 ms 8.04 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,556 4.64 ms 8.81 ms 12.6 ms 18.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,409 21.4 ms 32.9 ms 42 ms 61.1 ms 0
Read only 1 2,438 0.386 ms 0.69 ms 1.55 ms 2.78 ms 0
Read only 8 6,785 1.07 ms 2.26 ms 3.4 ms 5.22 ms 0
Read only 32 6,207 4.38 ms 8.46 ms 11.2 ms 16.1 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 30.5 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 1 188 3,764 4.74 ms 9.06 ms 17.3 ms 0
Read/write 8 321 6,424 23.1 ms 38.2 ms 51 ms 0
Read/write 32 303 6,059 101 ms 159 ms 193 ms 0
Read only 1 627 10,030 1.47 ms 2.18 ms 3.02 ms 0
Read only 8 618 9,880 12.5 ms 16.4 ms 19.3 ms 0
Read only 32 545 8,721 57.9 ms 73.1 ms 81.5 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 20.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 27,523 25,021 2.1 ms 4.67 ms 7.36 ms
1:1 set:get 28,416 14,208 2.06 ms 4.45 ms 7.04 ms

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

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 0.821 1.79 s 2.13 s 2.21 s 0%
Shop page 0.821 2.26 s 3.07 s 3.36 s 0%
Category page 0.821 2.04 s 2.79 s 3.19 s 0%
Product page 0.821 1.77 s 2.23 s 2.34 s 0%
Product search 0.821 1.63 s 1.82 s 2.01 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 0.905 5.81 s 7.11 s 7.18 s 0%
Shop page 0.905 8.65 s 9.96 s 10 s 0%
Category page 0.905 7.96 s 9.68 s 9.83 s 0%
Product page 0.905 6.34 s 6.7 s 6.74 s 0%
Product search 0.835 6.29 s 6.72 s 6.76 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 1.75 1.56 s 1.92 s 2.19 s 0%
Cart 1.75 1.62 s 1.87 s 2.08 s 0%
Checkout 1.75 1.28 s 1.54 s 1.64 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 1.81 5.51 s 7.16 s 7.63 s 0%
Cart 1.81 6.46 s 7.3 s 7.58 s 0%
Checkout 1.78 5.28 s 5.91 s 6.15 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 64 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 961 MiB
Storage 25 GB NVMe 24.1 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
1
CPU frequency
1996 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
961 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
24.1 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% 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 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Basic AMD
Location
New York 3
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
25 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
1 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.010
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 9, 2026, 15:25:02 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 9, 2026, 15:10:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 9, 2026, 15:23:16 UTC
Completed
Oct 9, 2026, 16:35:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 9, 2026, 16:35:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.013
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