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DigitalOcean v5 General Purpose 2 vCPU / 4 GB

Richmond 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 16, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
2,432
Faster than 100% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
3,206
Faster than 91% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
4,512
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$56.75
56 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    v5 General Purpose 2 vCPU / 4 GB
  • Location
    Richmond 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    30 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 16, 2026, 02:46:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 2,432 3,206 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
2,258
3rd of 191
3,195
40th of 135
Navigation
2,063
4th of 191
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
2,423
3rd of 191
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
2,614
2nd of 191
Single-core only
Photo Library
2,473
2nd of 191
3,334
46th of 135
Clang
2,088
4th of 191
3,073
55th of 135
Text Processing
2,391
2nd of 191
2,811
55th of 135
Asset Compression
2,346
3rd of 191
3,146
60th of 135
HDR
2,428
2nd of 191
2,839
51st of 135
Photo Editor
3,389
2nd of 191
4,261
33rd of 135
Ray Tracer
2,051
3rd of 191
3,185
59th of 135
Structure from Motion
2,750
1st of 191
Single-core only
Game Physics
2,236
4th of 191
Single-core only
Video Encoder
2,426
3rd of 191
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
2,289
3rd of 191
Single-core only
Video Player
3,045
1st of 191
Single-core only

Rank among the 191 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 76.6 GB/s 3 0.207%
Scale higher is better 50.1 GB/s 3 0.358%
Add higher is better 50.2 GB/s 3 0.0137%
Triad higher is better 50.2 GB/s 3 0.186%

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 891/s 3 0.115%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 27,587/s 3 0.105%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.89 GB/s 3 0.159%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 24.7 GB/s 3 0.275%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 8.89 GB/s 3 0.0806%

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 5.68 ms 3 0.163%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 352/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 9.45 ms 3 0.518%
Requests per second, average higher is better 352/s 2 0.0141%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 8.8 MB/s (2,251 IOPS) 8.8 MB/s (2,261 IOPS) 17.6 MB/s (4,512 IOPS)
64K 35.8 MB/s (572 IOPS) 36 MB/s (576 IOPS) 71.8 MB/s (1,148 IOPS)
512K 34.2 MB/s (68 IOPS) 36.3 MB/s (72 IOPS) 70.6 MB/s (140 IOPS)
1M 22.9 MB/s (22 IOPS) 25.3 MB/s (25 IOPS) 48.2 MB/s (47 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 2.27 Gbps 2.64 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.62 Gbps 2.62 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 690 Mbps 947 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.58 Gbps 3.59 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 3.94 Gbps 7.6 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 786 1.27 ms
fdatasync 909 1.1 ms
fsync 287 3.48 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 297 3.37 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 423 2.36 ms
fdatasync 780 1.28 ms
fsync 275 3.63 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 153 6.52 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 302 3.31 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 153 6.55 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 74.7 13.4 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 34.8 28.8 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 18.2 54.9 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 283 3.53 ms
write, close, fsync 265 3.77 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 3,108,328 0 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) 1 725 1.3 ms 1.68 ms 2.72 ms 5.83 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,306 2.77 ms 7.19 ms 10.4 ms 18.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,256 6.54 ms 28.3 ms 52.1 ms 164 ms 0
Read only 1 68,234 0.014 ms 0.017 ms 0.02 ms 0.034 ms 0
Read only 8 124,812 0.06 ms 0.091 ms 0.107 ms 0.179 ms 0
Read only 32 106,632 0.273 ms 0.395 ms 0.535 ms 0.922 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.5 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) 1 630 1.39 ms 2.2 ms 4.55 ms 21.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,851 2.43 ms 5.97 ms 45 ms 95.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,138 4.76 ms 43.7 ms 89.3 ms 190 ms 0
Read only 1 21,514 0.018 ms 0.051 ms 0.378 ms 2.02 ms 0
Read only 8 95,978 0.078 ms 0.119 ms 0.149 ms 0.491 ms 0
Read only 32 86,644 0.343 ms 0.546 ms 0.701 ms 1.25 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 65.2 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 1 122 2,439 5.67 ms 9.73 ms 97.6 ms 0
Read/write 8 377 7,547 9.91 ms 119 ms 200 ms 0
Read/write 32 596 11,929 21.1 ms 204 ms 320 ms 0
Read only 1 2,251 36,009 0.417 ms 0.448 ms 1.27 ms 0
Read only 8 3,992 63,872 1.96 ms 2.66 ms 3.13 ms 0
Read only 32 3,546 56,729 8.9 ms 11 ms 12.3 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 19 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 175,212 159,283 0.167 ms 2.26 ms 4.19 ms
1:1 set:get 178,474 89,237 0.159 ms 2.26 ms 4.13 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 800 3,095 4,216 448 ms
Express express-postgresjs 7,945 13,214 80,684 56.8 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 7,645 13,587 85,919 58.9 ms
NestJS nestjs 9,387 9,387 50,454 59.1 ms
Nuxt nuxt 7,334 13,413 69,436 66.7 ms
FastAPI fastapi 6,163 8,636 30,386 271 ms
Django django-postgresql 2,787 3,217 8,898 169 ms
Rails rails 4,351 6,527 32,827 74.1 ms
Laravel laravel 1,161 1,229 2,278 229 ms
Symfony symfony 1,425 1,581 4,765 187 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 2.8 565 ms 668 ms 703 ms 0%
Shop page 2.8 769 ms 905 ms 938 ms 0%
Category page 2.8 486 ms 784 ms 874 ms 0%
Product page 2.8 533 ms 644 ms 671 ms 0%
Product search 2.8 457 ms 569 ms 588 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.84 2.06 s 2.29 s 2.36 s 0%
Shop page 2.84 2.71 s 3.11 s 3.22 s 0%
Category page 2.84 2.38 s 2.89 s 3.03 s 0%
Product page 2.84 2.1 s 2.28 s 2.35 s 0%
Product search 2.84 1.93 s 2.12 s 2.19 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 5.46 605 ms 722 ms 735 ms 0%
Cart 5.46 483 ms 579 ms 594 ms 0%
Checkout 5.46 379 ms 445 ms 452 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 5.53 1.99 s 2.37 s 2.45 s 0%
Cart 5.53 2.09 s 2.28 s 2.35 s 0%
Checkout 5.53 1.65 s 1.9 s 1.99 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 68 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 3.6 119 ms 222 ms 347 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.81 59.4 ms 67.9 ms 190 ms 0%
Home page 1.81 106 ms 263 ms 332 ms 0%
Categories page 0.897 125 ms 158 ms 238 ms 0%
User activity page 0.897 75.5 ms 87.2 ms 159 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.56 380 ms 601 ms 1.13 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.28 202 ms 252 ms 269 ms 0%
Home page 2.25 345 ms 451 ms 936 ms 0%
Categories page 1.17 396 ms 620 ms 862 ms 0%
User activity page 1.12 238 ms 344 ms 801 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 4.82 1.31 s 1.65 s 1.97 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.42 1.13 s 1.45 s 1.77 s 0%
Home page 2.41 1.26 s 1.57 s 1.96 s 0%
Categories page 1.22 1.29 s 1.67 s 1.8 s 0%
User activity page 1.22 1.16 s 1.45 s 1.6 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 110 37.3 ms 106 ms 143 ms 0%
Topic JSON 55.2 36.1 ms 104 ms 146 ms 0%
Home page 55.2 36.9 ms 105 ms 145 ms 0%
Categories page 27.6 36 ms 104 ms 153 ms 0%
User activity page 27.6 133 ms 216 ms 374 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 4 app workers and 1024 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 4 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and didn't need it. The container peaked at 2,271 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 16.2 16.2 ms 18 ms 27 ms 0%
Post page 40.5 9.74 ms 12.2 ms 18.5 ms 0%
Tag page 8.1 11.6 ms 13.5 ms 21.1 ms 0%
Author page 8.1 11.7 ms 13.3 ms 19.2 ms 0%
RSS feed 8.1 13.7 ms 15.9 ms 20.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 18.9 53.3 ms 66.6 ms 88.4 ms 0%
Post page 47.2 40.5 ms 53.4 ms 69.3 ms 0%
Tag page 9.44 34.9 ms 47.4 ms 57.3 ms 0%
Author page 9.44 34.7 ms 45.5 ms 54.3 ms 0%
RSS feed 9.43 37.4 ms 48.3 ms 57.6 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 18.1 220 ms 291 ms 314 ms 0%
Post page 45.2 184 ms 251 ms 273 ms 0%
Tag page 9.03 121 ms 179 ms 212 ms 0%
Author page 9.01 121 ms 172 ms 199 ms 0%
RSS feed 9.03 123 ms 180 ms 207 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 6.71 18.1 ms 21.8 ms 26.5 ms 0%
Post editor 20.2 7.93 ms 10.8 ms 14.2 ms 0%
Saving a draft 20.2 25.6 ms 30.4 ms 42.1 ms 0%
Member list 6.73 20.6 ms 25.2 ms 29.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 8.69 22.7 ms 26.7 ms 33.2 ms 0%
Post editor 26.2 10.8 ms 15.9 ms 18.4 ms 0%
Saving a draft 26.2 119 ms 141 ms 184 ms 0%
Member list 8.72 27 ms 31 ms 36.8 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 353 MB and MySQL at 623 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 2.96 43.3 ms 45.5 ms 46.5 ms 0%
Blog index 2.95 153 ms 158 ms 161 ms 0%
Blog post 8.84 14.5 ms 22.1 ms 23.7 ms 0%
Bread page 8.84 15.8 ms 17.6 ms 18.6 ms 0%
Location page 2.95 14.9 ms 16.7 ms 18 ms 0%
Site search 2.95 24.8 ms 41.6 ms 43.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 4.16 139 ms 177 ms 194 ms 0%
Blog index 4.19 457 ms 568 ms 616 ms 0%
Blog post 12.5 41.1 ms 69 ms 86.2 ms 0%
Bread page 12.5 45.6 ms 61.5 ms 69.3 ms 0%
Location page 4.19 43 ms 57.5 ms 63.3 ms 0%
Site search 4.14 66 ms 124 ms 141 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 4.29 439 ms 602 ms 655 ms 0%
Blog index 4.35 1.03 s 1.23 s 1.32 s 0%
Blog post 12.9 253 ms 379 ms 461 ms 0%
Bread page 12.9 259 ms 377 ms 432 ms 0%
Location page 4.34 253 ms 377 ms 458 ms 0%
Site search 4.34 308 ms 473 ms 551 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 1.42 46.1 ms 49.4 ms 60.7 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.88 159 ms 165 ms 299 ms 0%
Page editor 4.29 80 ms 86.5 ms 125 ms 0%
Image library 1.42 32.1 ms 34.7 ms 259 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.42 19 ms 40 ms 41.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.76 161 ms 307 ms 348 ms 0%
Page explorer 3.58 565 ms 759 ms 841 ms 0%
Page editor 5.33 242 ms 405 ms 500 ms 0%
Image library 1.78 171 ms 348 ms 393 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.76 63.6 ms 181 ms 212 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 305 MB, Postgres at 163 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.9% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 30 GB SSD 29 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 9555P 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3195 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
29 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.9% 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
v5 General Purpose 2 vCPU / 4 GB
Product line
v5 General Purpose
Location
Richmond 1
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
30 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
4 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$56.75
Hourly price at test time
$0.076
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 16, 2026, 02:47:23 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 16, 2026, 02:46:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 16, 2026, 02:47:21 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 16, 2026, 02:47:21 UTC
Completed
Oct 16, 2026, 04:24:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 16, 2026, 04:24:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.12
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