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RamNode 8GB VDS

Los Angeles, CA

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 11, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,275
Faster than 54% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,334
Faster than 59% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
79,745
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$50.00
47 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    RamNode
  • Plan
    8GB VDS
  • Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    200 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04 Server Cloud
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 11, 2026, 18:09:52 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,275 2,334 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
1,296
58th of 106
2,035
62nd of 90
Navigation
1,648
24th of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,282
51st of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,348
52nd of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,069
62nd of 106
2,132
60th of 90
Clang
1,439
25th of 106
2,734
45th of 90
Text Processing
1,336
41st of 106
2,576
43rd of 90
Asset Compression
1,040
81st of 106
2,061
67th of 90
HDR
1,141
56th of 106
2,091
58th of 90
Photo Editor
1,363
57th of 106
2,641
46th of 90
Ray Tracer
1,253
61st of 106
2,533
58th of 90
Structure from Motion
1,336
57th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,226
59th of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,224
55th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,243
66th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,266
66th 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 21.6 GB/s 3 0.245%
Scale higher is better 22.8 GB/s 3 1.88%
Add higher is better 24.9 GB/s 3 1.45%
Triad higher is better 25.3 GB/s 3 1.07%

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 596/s 3 0.458%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 38,560/s 3 0.63%
SHA-256 higher is better 677 MB/s 3 0.13%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 9 GB/s 3 0.184%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.2 GB/s 3 0.992%

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 3.16 ms 3 0.146%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 629/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 5.34 ms 3 3.6%
Requests per second, average higher is better 626/s 3 0.117%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 155.5 MB/s (39,820 IOPS) 156 MB/s (39,925 IOPS) 311.5 MB/s (79,745 IOPS)
64K 328.4 MB/s (5,255 IOPS) 330.2 MB/s (5,282 IOPS) 658.6 MB/s (10,537 IOPS)
512K 332.7 MB/s (665 IOPS) 350.4 MB/s (700 IOPS) 683.1 MB/s (1,365 IOPS)
1M 435.2 MB/s (435 IOPS) 464.2 MB/s (464 IOPS) 899.4 MB/s (899 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 1.26 Gbps 1.51 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.58 Gbps 1.59 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.06 Gbps 1.4 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 8.8 Gbps 4.13 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.15 Gbps 3.24 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 4,770 0.21 ms
fdatasync 4,645 0.215 ms
fsync 2,177 0.459 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,285 0.304 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,562 0.39 ms
fdatasync 4,047 0.247 ms
fsync 1,794 0.557 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,177 0.849 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,238 0.447 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,314 0.761 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 848 1.18 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 426 2.35 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 235 4.26 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,836 0.353 ms
write, close, fsync 2,889 0.346 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 725,308 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 1,361 0.643 ms 1.14 ms 1.63 ms 5.54 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,524 1.56 ms 3.02 ms 4.95 ms 10.3 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,735 5.09 ms 16.2 ms 27.2 ms 58.1 ms 0
Read only 1 31,513 0.03 ms 0.039 ms 0.052 ms 0.085 ms 0
Read only 8 59,683 0.123 ms 0.193 ms 0.228 ms 0.383 ms 0
Read only 32 55,476 0.508 ms 0.728 ms 0.986 ms 1.95 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.99 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) 1 892 1.01 ms 1.71 ms 3.39 ms 8.95 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,206 2.17 ms 4 ms 12.6 ms 25.3 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,792 5.76 ms 12.1 ms 25.3 ms 47.4 ms 0
Read only 1 22,820 0.04 ms 0.06 ms 0.085 ms 0.311 ms 0
Read only 8 41,471 0.181 ms 0.288 ms 0.353 ms 1.11 ms 0
Read only 32 40,731 0.722 ms 1.11 ms 1.48 ms 2.56 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 21.9 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 1 222 4,430 3.75 ms 6.79 ms 24.4 ms 0
Read/write 8 750 15,002 8.43 ms 30.8 ms 46.6 ms 0
Read/write 32 877 17,546 33.7 ms 64.5 ms 89.2 ms 0
Read only 1 1,155 18,473 0.841 ms 1.1 ms 1.58 ms 0
Read only 8 2,026 32,414 3.82 ms 5.09 ms 5.57 ms 0
Read only 32 1,777 28,433 18 ms 21.9 ms 23.9 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 12.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 82,997 75,451 0.471 ms 2.38 ms 4.26 ms
1:1 set:get 81,250 40,625 0.519 ms 2.38 ms 3.41 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 706 2,274 3,023 549 ms
Express express-postgresjs 7,658 10,858 41,263 64.1 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 7,443 11,583 47,052 57.2 ms
NestJS nestjs 4,692 5,467 21,710 82.9 ms
Nuxt nuxt 6,351 10,427 36,994 74.8 ms
FastAPI fastapi 3,926 4,828 22,095 307 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,637 1,859 3,991 184 ms
Rails rails 2,369 3,203 13,814 138 ms
Laravel laravel 906 958 1,668 290 ms
Symfony symfony 982 1,057 3,058 267 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 2.55 619 ms 680 ms 710 ms 0%
Shop page 2.55 838 ms 907 ms 944 ms 0%
Category page 2.55 531 ms 849 ms 919 ms 0%
Product page 2.55 578 ms 640 ms 678 ms 0%
Product search 2.55 500 ms 565 ms 591 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.54 2.29 s 2.54 s 2.68 s 0%
Shop page 2.54 3.03 s 3.43 s 3.51 s 0%
Category page 2.54 2.65 s 3.16 s 3.43 s 0%
Product page 2.54 2.29 s 2.49 s 2.54 s 0%
Product search 2.54 2.12 s 2.3 s 2.38 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.75 683 ms 786 ms 832 ms 0%
Cart 4.75 548 ms 632 ms 673 ms 0%
Checkout 4.75 430 ms 501 ms 528 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 4.95 2.21 s 2.64 s 2.7 s 0%
Cart 4.95 2.31 s 2.52 s 2.59 s 0%
Checkout 4.95 1.85 s 2.11 s 2.16 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 65 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 2.28 188 ms 263 ms 424 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.16 92.3 ms 128 ms 164 ms 0%
Home page 1.16 168 ms 229 ms 380 ms 0%
Categories page 0.579 199 ms 326 ms 464 ms 0%
User activity page 0.563 124 ms 340 ms 343 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.74 371 ms 482 ms 847 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.37 190 ms 263 ms 345 ms 0%
Home page 2.37 339 ms 431 ms 674 ms 0%
Categories page 1.2 391 ms 467 ms 482 ms 0%
User activity page 1.18 239 ms 303 ms 580 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 4.49 1.38 s 1.68 s 1.84 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.27 1.2 s 1.39 s 1.45 s 0%
Home page 2.33 1.34 s 1.61 s 1.75 s 0%
Categories page 1.13 1.37 s 1.65 s 1.82 s 0%
User activity page 1.12 1.28 s 1.5 s 1.61 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 95.1 46.6 ms 111 ms 141 ms 0%
Topic JSON 47.6 46.9 ms 113 ms 141 ms 0%
Home page 47.6 47.9 ms 113 ms 147 ms 0%
Categories page 23.8 45 ms 109 ms 142 ms 0%
User activity page 23.8 150 ms 232 ms 326 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 4 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 1,853 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 8.9 31.4 ms 37 ms 43.3 ms 0%
Post page 22.2 16.5 ms 21.4 ms 28.4 ms 0%
Tag page 4.45 21.9 ms 26.8 ms 29.6 ms 0%
Author page 4.43 21.9 ms 26.5 ms 32.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.43 28 ms 33.4 ms 41.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 11.9 88.6 ms 110 ms 119 ms 0%
Post page 29.8 61.5 ms 83.1 ms 95.3 ms 0%
Tag page 5.98 55.6 ms 80 ms 88.8 ms 0%
Author page 5.96 56.4 ms 78.2 ms 90 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.93 65.8 ms 84.8 ms 93.5 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 12.1 331 ms 383 ms 429 ms 0%
Post page 30.4 281 ms 327 ms 368 ms 0%
Tag page 6.08 182 ms 224 ms 262 ms 0%
Author page 6.08 178 ms 217 ms 237 ms 0%
RSS feed 6.08 188 ms 223 ms 259 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 5.1 27.5 ms 32.8 ms 37.2 ms 0%
Post editor 15.3 10.7 ms 13.7 ms 18.2 ms 0%
Saving a draft 15.3 31.3 ms 37.2 ms 43.6 ms 0%
Member list 5.12 31.5 ms 38.9 ms 49 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 6.51 37.1 ms 43.2 ms 54.8 ms 0%
Post editor 19.7 15.9 ms 22.6 ms 24.9 ms 0%
Saving a draft 19.7 157 ms 190 ms 215 ms 0%
Member list 6.56 41 ms 48.1 ms 52.4 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 550 MB and MySQL at 617 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.7 76.8 ms 86.6 ms 89.1 ms 0%
Blog index 1.7 269 ms 280 ms 286 ms 0%
Blog post 5.06 24.8 ms 37.2 ms 42.4 ms 0%
Bread page 5.08 27.5 ms 33.6 ms 35.6 ms 0%
Location page 1.7 25.6 ms 33.2 ms 34.1 ms 0%
Site search 1.68 41.9 ms 76.6 ms 77.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.25 171 ms 223 ms 311 ms 0%
Blog index 3.28 622 ms 767 ms 834 ms 0%
Blog post 9.74 48.4 ms 78.2 ms 98.9 ms 0%
Bread page 9.79 53.6 ms 74.8 ms 90 ms 0%
Location page 3.28 49.9 ms 69.6 ms 79.9 ms 0%
Site search 3.25 77.5 ms 146 ms 187 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 3.14 576 ms 769 ms 890 ms 0%
Blog index 3.22 1.53 s 1.78 s 1.87 s 0%
Blog post 9.45 331 ms 513 ms 671 ms 0%
Bread page 9.46 340 ms 520 ms 658 ms 0%
Location page 3.17 341 ms 504 ms 579 ms 0%
Site search 3.15 398 ms 650 ms 776 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.757 82.5 ms 104 ms 197 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.51 307 ms 323 ms 432 ms 0%
Page editor 2.27 148 ms 188 ms 284 ms 0%
Image library 0.757 60.9 ms 69.1 ms 456 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.757 35 ms 73.8 ms 81.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.34 240 ms 531 ms 575 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.73 666 ms 1.01 s 1.1 s 0%
Page editor 4.09 323 ms 596 ms 694 ms 0%
Image library 1.36 184 ms 407 ms 527 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.34 79.3 ms 183 ms 236 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 300 MB, Postgres at 163 MB, and Redis at 47 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 200 GB NVMe 193.7 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 (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3492 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
193.7 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-51-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
8GB VDS
Product line
Cloud VDS
Location
Los Angeles, CA
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
200 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
10 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$50.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.074
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 11, 2026, 18:10:41 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 11, 2026, 18:09:52 UTC
Server created
Oct 11, 2026, 18:10:35 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 11, 2026, 18:10:35 UTC
Completed
Oct 11, 2026, 19:48:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 11, 2026, 19:48:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.12
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