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Cherry Servers Premium VDS 2

Chicago, US

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 14, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,519
Faster than 87% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,505 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
3,502
Faster than 96% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 3,589 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
100,447
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 98,782 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$80.73
43 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Cherry Servers
  • Plan
    Premium 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 14, 2026, 20:54:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,519 3,502 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
1,515
39th of 162
3,604
32nd of 120
Navigation
1,638
28th of 162
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,552
28th of 162
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,517
43rd of 162
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,531
33rd of 162
3,867
32nd of 120
Clang
1,404
29th of 162
3,737
41st of 120
Text Processing
1,403
34th of 162
3,353
41st of 120
Asset Compression
1,478
47th of 162
3,750
42nd of 120
HDR
1,534
38th of 162
3,113
39th of 120
Photo Editor
1,720
32nd of 162
2,562
59th of 120
Ray Tracer
1,453
35th of 162
4,336
37th of 120
Structure from Motion
1,564
51st of 162
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,434
38th of 162
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,519
33rd of 162
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,446
50th of 162
Single-core only
Video Player
1,626
38th of 162
Single-core only

Rank among the 162 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 56 GB/s 3 0.156%
Scale higher is better 43 GB/s 3 0.269%
Add higher is better 42 GB/s 3 1.04%
Triad higher is better 42.5 GB/s 3 0.43%

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 1,202/s 3 0.444%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 29,195/s 3 0.0658%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.64 GB/s 3 0.237%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 17.4 GB/s 3 0.0423%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 7.35 GB/s 3 0.0027%

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 10.1 ms 3 0.183%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 397/s 3 0.291%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 16.4 ms 3 4.57%
Requests per second, average higher is better 392/s 3 0.148%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 195.9 MB/s (50,157 IOPS) 196.4 MB/s (50,290 IOPS) 392.4 MB/s (100,447 IOPS)
64K 479.7 MB/s (7,675 IOPS) 482.2 MB/s (7,715 IOPS) 962 MB/s (15,390 IOPS)
512K 406.1 MB/s (812 IOPS) 427.6 MB/s (855 IOPS) 833.7 MB/s (1,667 IOPS)
1M 478.4 MB/s (478 IOPS) 510.3 MB/s (510 IOPS) 988.7 MB/s (988 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 10,594 0.094 ms
fdatasync 9,566 0.105 ms
fsync 7,879 0.127 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 8,941 0.112 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 5,273 0.19 ms
fdatasync 8,003 0.125 ms
fsync 6,445 0.155 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,927 0.255 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 7,673 0.13 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 4,167 0.24 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 2,606 0.384 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 1,152 0.868 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 531 1.88 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 6,736 0.148 ms
write, close, fsync 6,378 0.157 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 636,964 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 2,226 0.445 ms 0.492 ms 0.531 ms 1.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 7,029 1.05 ms 1.79 ms 2.48 ms 4.29 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 7,360 3.37 ms 10.2 ms 17 ms 34 ms 0
Read only 1 35,449 0.026 ms 0.036 ms 0.043 ms 0.056 ms 0
Read only 8 90,262 0.081 ms 0.138 ms 0.165 ms 0.211 ms 0
Read only 32 92,697 0.295 ms 0.455 ms 0.562 ms 0.794 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.14 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 2,091 0.461 ms 0.542 ms 0.65 ms 5.58 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 6,505 1.12 ms 1.6 ms 3.4 ms 15.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 8,793 3.27 ms 5.4 ms 13.7 ms 31.1 ms 0
Read only 1 23,924 0.041 ms 0.057 ms 0.068 ms 0.095 ms 0
Read only 8 73,547 0.1 ms 0.172 ms 0.208 ms 0.341 ms 0
Read only 32 74,729 0.381 ms 0.586 ms 0.724 ms 1.62 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 14.5 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 1 475 9,499 2 ms 2.66 ms 4.1 ms 0
Read/write 8 1,087 21,731 6.91 ms 11.9 ms 16.4 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,572 31,432 19.3 ms 34.3 ms 45.8 ms 0
Read only 1 1,092 17,478 1.03 ms 1.06 ms 1.23 ms 0
Read only 8 3,025 48,407 2.66 ms 3.89 ms 4.41 ms 0
Read only 32 2,818 45,082 11.2 ms 15 ms 16.4 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 5 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 66,561 60,509 0.951 ms 1.85 ms 1.98 ms
1:1 set:get 67,370 33,685 0.935 ms 1.82 ms 1.96 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 1,217 4,164 6,077 424 ms
Express express-postgresjs 11,704 16,500 59,928 39.4 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 11,261 17,067 60,300 50.1 ms
NestJS nestjs 8,019 9,119 30,526 52.3 ms
Nuxt nuxt 10,532 15,746 54,376 49.9 ms
FastAPI fastapi 5,894 7,612 30,248 206 ms
Django django-postgresql 2,432 2,737 6,104 339 ms
Rails rails 3,862 5,365 21,735 177 ms
Laravel laravel 1,382 1,470 2,767 196 ms
Symfony symfony 1,681 1,850 4,987 161 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 3.91 416 ms 550 ms 576 ms 0%
Shop page 3.91 545 ms 705 ms 764 ms 0%
Category page 3.91 354 ms 564 ms 660 ms 0%
Product page 3.91 384 ms 505 ms 546 ms 0%
Product search 3.91 333 ms 453 ms 518 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 3.8 1.63 s 1.89 s 1.95 s 0%
Shop page 3.8 2.09 s 2.34 s 2.43 s 0%
Category page 3.8 1.65 s 2.1 s 2.34 s 0%
Product page 3.8 1.56 s 1.77 s 1.84 s 0%
Product search 3.8 1.44 s 1.62 s 1.69 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 7.54 424 ms 555 ms 611 ms 0%
Cart 7.54 367 ms 481 ms 513 ms 0%
Checkout 7.54 276 ms 376 ms 401 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 7.3 1.61 s 1.92 s 2.05 s 0%
Cart 7.3 1.5 s 1.77 s 1.86 s 0%
Checkout 7.3 1.25 s 1.48 s 1.54 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 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 2.81 153 ms 303 ms 387 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.41 78.3 ms 88 ms 162 ms 0%
Home page 1.41 137 ms 157 ms 261 ms 0%
Categories page 0.711 160 ms 283 ms 333 ms 0%
User activity page 0.695 93.4 ms 248 ms 257 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 7.53 234 ms 279 ms 541 ms 0%
Topic JSON 3.77 122 ms 150 ms 314 ms 0%
Home page 3.76 209 ms 314 ms 554 ms 0%
Categories page 1.92 249 ms 287 ms 303 ms 0%
User activity page 1.89 141 ms 182 ms 394 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 6.99 949 ms 1.21 s 1.58 s 0%
Topic JSON 3.53 708 ms 900 ms 1.21 s 0%
Home page 3.51 886 ms 1.17 s 1.62 s 0%
Categories page 1.75 1.01 s 1.17 s 1.7 s 0%
User activity page 1.74 783 ms 944 ms 1.02 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 148 26.2 ms 53.5 ms 78.5 ms 0%
Topic JSON 73.9 24.7 ms 53.2 ms 75.9 ms 0%
Home page 73.9 26.5 ms 57.4 ms 87.6 ms 0%
Categories page 37 26 ms 55.8 ms 86.5 ms 0%
User activity page 37 161 ms 233 ms 400 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 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 2,524 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 11.8 25.8 ms 28 ms 32.7 ms 0%
Post page 29.4 12.4 ms 14.4 ms 19 ms 0%
Tag page 5.88 16 ms 18.2 ms 20.9 ms 0%
Author page 5.88 17.2 ms 19.3 ms 23.5 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.86 20.3 ms 23.4 ms 28 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 14.2 79.9 ms 96.3 ms 105 ms 0%
Post page 35.5 48.8 ms 69.6 ms 77.4 ms 0%
Tag page 7.11 46.4 ms 64.5 ms 72.6 ms 0%
Author page 7.09 52.4 ms 68.5 ms 71.7 ms 0%
RSS feed 7.09 55.1 ms 71.9 ms 79.2 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 14.1 292 ms 332 ms 362 ms 0%
Post page 35.4 238 ms 281 ms 309 ms 0%
Tag page 7.05 159 ms 197 ms 221 ms 0%
Author page 7.1 160 ms 197 ms 223 ms 0%
RSS feed 7.06 162 ms 200 ms 232 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 6.58 23.5 ms 27.2 ms 32 ms 0%
Post editor 19.8 8.88 ms 11.1 ms 14.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 19.8 22.5 ms 26.5 ms 32.5 ms 0%
Member list 6.58 26 ms 30.6 ms 38.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 8.01 32.2 ms 38.1 ms 50.2 ms 0%
Post editor 24.1 17 ms 20.9 ms 22.7 ms 0%
Saving a draft 24.1 126 ms 151 ms 162 ms 0%
Member list 8.04 38.1 ms 41.7 ms 44.4 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 540 MB and MySQL at 624 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 2.09 63.2 ms 67.4 ms 68.6 ms 0%
Blog index 2.09 213 ms 237 ms 240 ms 0%
Blog post 6.25 20.4 ms 30.5 ms 34 ms 0%
Bread page 6.26 22.6 ms 24.1 ms 25.1 ms 0%
Location page 2.09 21.5 ms 23.5 ms 23.9 ms 0%
Site search 2.08 32 ms 59 ms 60.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.46 161 ms 220 ms 248 ms 0%
Blog index 3.51 585 ms 784 ms 815 ms 0%
Blog post 10.4 43.3 ms 73.5 ms 93.9 ms 0%
Bread page 10.4 48.7 ms 71.7 ms 81.7 ms 0%
Location page 3.51 46 ms 72 ms 97.8 ms 0%
Site search 3.44 68.6 ms 142 ms 175 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 3.74 489 ms 679 ms 774 ms 0%
Blog index 3.76 1.35 s 1.59 s 1.66 s 0%
Blog post 11.2 267 ms 442 ms 547 ms 0%
Bread page 11.2 279 ms 490 ms 606 ms 0%
Location page 3.76 272 ms 463 ms 584 ms 0%
Site search 3.71 325 ms 509 ms 669 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.861 66.1 ms 69.6 ms 86.1 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.74 278 ms 290 ms 398 ms 0%
Page editor 2.6 131 ms 155 ms 267 ms 0%
Image library 0.861 50.9 ms 53.7 ms 408 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.861 26.9 ms 59.1 ms 60 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.36 216 ms 425 ms 578 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.76 661 ms 970 ms 1.1 s 0%
Page editor 4.17 327 ms 636 ms 700 ms 0%
Image library 1.37 156 ms 430 ms 471 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.36 81.3 ms 233 ms 367 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. 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 147 MB, and Redis at 8 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 4
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% 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
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
3100 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
15.6 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
96.8 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% 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
Premium VDS 2
Product line
Premium 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
$80.73
Hourly price at test time
$0.14
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 14, 2026, 23:55:13 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 14, 2026, 20:54:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 14, 2026, 20:55:08 UTC
Completed
Oct 14, 2026, 22:25:19 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 14, 2026, 22:25:19 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.21
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