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Cherry Servers Cloud VDS 2

Chicago, US

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
821
Faster than 21% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,845
Faster than 36% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
99,447
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$57.33
32 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Cherry Servers
  • Plan
    Cloud VDS 2
  • Location
    Chicago, US
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    16 GB
  • Storage
    100 GB NVMe
  • Network
    1 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu_24_04_64bit
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 01:24:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 821 1,845 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
874
99th of 106
1,951
63rd of 90
Navigation
917
100th of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
841
95th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
932
94th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
842
83rd of 106
2,043
64th of 90
Clang
799
97th of 106
2,035
64th of 90
Text Processing
836
93rd of 106
1,553
71st of 90
Asset Compression
629
103rd of 106
1,597
76th of 90
HDR
753
97th of 106
1,448
74th of 90
Photo Editor
683
92nd of 106
2,034
60th of 90
Ray Tracer
826
97th of 106
2,268
63rd of 90
Structure from Motion
1,027
86th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
781
96th of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
806
92nd of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
785
101st of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
893
86th of 106
Single-core only

Rank among the 106 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 43 GB/s 3 0.381%
Scale higher is better 24.3 GB/s 3 1.62%
Add higher is better 23.9 GB/s 3 1.02%
Triad higher is better 23.9 GB/s 3 1.43%

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 743/s 3 0.149%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 19,665/s 3 0.121%
SHA-256 higher is better 903 MB/s 3 0.0933%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 13.4 GB/s 3 0.0496%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.29 GB/s 3 0.153%

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 11.8 ms 3 0%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 336/s 3 0.172%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 21.2 ms 3 2.86%
Requests per second, average higher is better 336/s 3 0.109%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 194 MB/s (49,658 IOPS) 194.5 MB/s (49,789 IOPS) 388.5 MB/s (99,447 IOPS)
64K 469.8 MB/s (7,516 IOPS) 472.3 MB/s (7,556 IOPS) 942 MB/s (15,072 IOPS)
512K 394.3 MB/s (788 IOPS) 415.3 MB/s (830 IOPS) 809.6 MB/s (1,618 IOPS)
1M 468.2 MB/s (468 IOPS) 499.4 MB/s (499 IOPS) 967.6 MB/s (967 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 975 Mbps 498 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 977 Mbps 830 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 767 Mbps 721 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.02 Gbps 240 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.05 Gbps 950 Mbps

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 7,616 0.131 ms
fdatasync 8,010 0.125 ms
fsync 6,076 0.165 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 6,740 0.148 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,238 0.236 ms
fdatasync 7,326 0.136 ms
fsync 5,993 0.167 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,341 0.299 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 6,261 0.16 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 3,289 0.304 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,728 0.579 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 856 1.17 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 442 2.26 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 5,985 0.167 ms
write, close, fsync 5,753 0.174 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 916,263 0.001 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 2,174 0.434 ms 0.594 ms 0.738 ms 2.27 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,600 1.32 ms 2.24 ms 3.07 ms 5.63 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,492 4.68 ms 13.2 ms 21.9 ms 51.7 ms 0
Read only 1 23,902 0.039 ms 0.056 ms 0.067 ms 0.086 ms 0
Read only 8 62,643 0.118 ms 0.205 ms 0.248 ms 0.356 ms 0
Read only 32 60,060 0.482 ms 0.71 ms 0.882 ms 1.69 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.04 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 1,589 0.63 ms 0.77 ms 1.02 ms 5.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,040 1.48 ms 2.16 ms 4.21 ms 13.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,337 4.63 ms 7.57 ms 16.9 ms 35.2 ms 0
Read only 1 16,889 0.052 ms 0.087 ms 0.111 ms 0.217 ms 0
Read only 8 49,715 0.149 ms 0.263 ms 0.321 ms 0.901 ms 0
Read only 32 48,613 0.607 ms 0.9 ms 1.14 ms 2.92 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 27.5 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 1 338 6,764 2.81 ms 3.68 ms 6.43 ms 0
Read/write 8 978 19,554 7.84 ms 12.3 ms 16.4 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,048 20,950 28.7 ms 54.8 ms 71.8 ms 0
Read only 1 726 11,611 1.27 ms 1.76 ms 2.07 ms 0
Read only 8 1,922 30,757 4.18 ms 6.21 ms 7.17 ms 0
Read only 32 1,793 28,691 18 ms 23.9 ms 26.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 8.4 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 62,692 56,992 0.999 ms 2 ms 3.17 ms
1:1 set:get 62,861 31,430 0.999 ms 1.99 ms 3.1 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 659 2,441 3,298 709 ms
Express express-postgresjs 8,156 11,249 40,011 64 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 8,018 12,133 53,314 60.6 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,162 6,114 22,151 79.1 ms
Nuxt nuxt 7,149 10,657 33,846 78 ms
FastAPI fastapi 3,687 4,944 15,947 402 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,430 1,668 3,675 357 ms
Rails rails 2,488 3,524 14,229 162 ms
Laravel laravel 849 897 1,637 331 ms
Symfony symfony 1,055 1,163 3,204 256 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.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 2.1 774 ms 947 ms 1.03 s 0%
Shop page 2.1 1.01 s 1.27 s 1.33 s 0%
Category page 2.1 637 ms 1.06 s 1.23 s 0%
Product page 2.1 690 ms 872 ms 934 ms 0%
Product search 2.1 623 ms 808 ms 870 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.05 2.91 s 3.36 s 3.44 s 0%
Shop page 2.05 3.92 s 4.44 s 4.66 s 0%
Category page 2.05 3.07 s 4 s 4.31 s 0%
Product page 2.05 2.82 s 3.15 s 3.26 s 0%
Product search 2.05 2.6 s 2.9 s 3.01 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.12 786 ms 1.03 s 1.12 s 0%
Cart 4.12 652 ms 848 ms 881 ms 0%
Checkout 4.12 502 ms 649 ms 718 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.98 2.92 s 3.45 s 3.57 s 0%
Cart 3.98 2.79 s 3.18 s 3.3 s 0%
Checkout 3.98 2.21 s 2.52 s 2.62 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 67 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 1.67 267 ms 351 ms 559 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.844 134 ms 159 ms 275 ms 0%
Home page 0.844 236 ms 250 ms 257 ms 0%
Categories page 0.43 284 ms 473 ms 536 ms 0%
User activity page 0.413 161 ms 179 ms 181 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.07 424 ms 573 ms 917 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.04 219 ms 323 ms 587 ms 0%
Home page 2.02 388 ms 532 ms 863 ms 0%
Categories page 1.02 454 ms 588 ms 745 ms 0%
User activity page 1 263 ms 407 ms 510 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.61 1.76 s 2.29 s 4.03 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.78 1.32 s 1.68 s 1.85 s 0%
Home page 1.83 1.7 s 2.17 s 2.92 s 0%
Categories page 0.922 1.8 s 2.2 s 2.25 s 0%
User activity page 0.922 1.4 s 1.85 s 2.75 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 82.4 46.4 ms 99.1 ms 144 ms 0%
Topic JSON 41.3 43.7 ms 99.4 ms 144 ms 0%
Home page 41.2 45.9 ms 101 ms 148 ms 0%
Categories page 20.6 46.1 ms 105 ms 151 ms 0%
User activity page 20.6 284 ms 422 ms 616 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. Discourse ran with 8 app workers and 4096 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 16 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,630 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 6.74 42.4 ms 46.4 ms 55.9 ms 0%
Post page 16.8 22.8 ms 26.1 ms 35.3 ms 0%
Tag page 3.36 29.7 ms 33.7 ms 38.8 ms 0%
Author page 3.36 29 ms 32.2 ms 37 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.36 31.9 ms 40 ms 46 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 8.07 136 ms 162 ms 175 ms 0%
Post page 20.1 89.4 ms 124 ms 143 ms 0%
Tag page 4.04 82.1 ms 112 ms 117 ms 0%
Author page 4.06 84.4 ms 108 ms 129 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.01 95.2 ms 130 ms 143 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.88 517 ms 589 ms 643 ms 0%
Post page 19.7 432 ms 505 ms 548 ms 0%
Tag page 3.95 275 ms 332 ms 366 ms 0%
Author page 3.95 279 ms 335 ms 361 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.93 281 ms 332 ms 349 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.68 41.8 ms 52.3 ms 61.9 ms 0%
Post editor 11.1 16 ms 20.2 ms 24.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.1 38.9 ms 47 ms 60.3 ms 0%
Member list 3.7 47.7 ms 59.5 ms 72 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.43 57.6 ms 67.4 ms 73.1 ms 0%
Post editor 13.3 31.4 ms 37.5 ms 43.3 ms 0%
Saving a draft 13.3 220 ms 274 ms 295 ms 0%
Member list 4.45 69.5 ms 76.2 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 524 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.25 108 ms 114 ms 119 ms 0%
Blog index 1.23 354 ms 389 ms 420 ms 0%
Blog post 3.71 34.9 ms 54 ms 57 ms 0%
Bread page 3.73 38.8 ms 41.8 ms 45 ms 0%
Location page 1.25 37.1 ms 39.7 ms 42.2 ms 0%
Site search 1.23 59 ms 99.6 ms 101 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.92 290 ms 381 ms 491 ms 0%
Blog index 1.97 1.07 s 1.36 s 1.42 s 0%
Blog post 5.83 78.9 ms 130 ms 167 ms 0%
Bread page 5.83 83.4 ms 128 ms 157 ms 0%
Location page 1.97 83.4 ms 121 ms 127 ms 0%
Site search 1.92 118 ms 256 ms 291 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.08 896 ms 1.19 s 1.35 s 0%
Blog index 2.13 2.37 s 2.78 s 3.03 s 0%
Blog post 6.22 497 ms 760 ms 913 ms 0%
Bread page 6.27 496 ms 792 ms 859 ms 0%
Location page 2.13 496 ms 769 ms 884 ms 0%
Site search 2.03 602 ms 861 ms 918 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.494 118 ms 137 ms 149 ms 0%
Page explorer 1 470 ms 502 ms 645 ms 0%
Page editor 1.48 222 ms 277 ms 433 ms 0%
Image library 0.494 86.1 ms 93 ms 956 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.494 49.3 ms 105 ms 177 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.704 360 ms 632 ms 671 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.47 1.14 s 2.35 s 2.73 s 0%
Page editor 2.19 657 ms 1.03 s 1.18 s 0%
Image library 0.737 329 ms 604 ms 667 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.72 151 ms 362 ms 428 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 293 MB, Postgres at 148 MB, and Redis at 8 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 4
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 16 GB 15.6 GiB
Storage 100 GB NVMe 96.8 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 Xeon Processor (Icelake)
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2000 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
15.6 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
96.8 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
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
Cloud VDS 2
Product line
Cloud VDS
Location
Chicago, US
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
16 GB
Storage
100 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
1 Gbps
Transfer
10 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$57.33
Hourly price at test time
$0.098
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 12, 2026, 09:29:25 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:24:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 12, 2026, 06:29:19 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 06:29:19 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 08:09:42 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 08:09:42 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.17
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