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UpCloud Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Sydney #1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 18, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
19,899
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€3.50 EUR
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Server

  • Provider
    UpCloud
  • Plan
    Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    Sydney #1
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    10 GB
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    01000000-0000-4000-8000-000030240200
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 18, 2026, 17:05:00 UTC
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Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Insufficient RAM

Durable transfers and indexed account lookups against a fixed relational dataset.

Requires 1024 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 50 ms · p99 ≤ 100 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

PostgreSQL large dataset

Insufficient RAM

The same transaction mix against ten million accounts; the dataset never shrinks to fit a plan.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 100 ms · p99 ≤ 250 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis cache

Insufficient RAM

A mixed cache workload with 1 KiB values, expiration, misses and eviction.

Requires 1024 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 10 ms · p99 ≤ 25 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis persistent queue

Insufficient RAM

Enqueue, consume and acknowledge payloads with append-only persistence.

Requires 1024 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 20 ms · p99 ≤ 50 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Discourse community

Insufficient RAM

Signed-in reading, search, posting and replies in a populated Rails forum.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 1500 ms · p99 ≤ 3000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n workflows

Insufficient RAM

Webhook, transformation, branching and a verified final response.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n queue workers

Insufficient RAM

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Ghost publishing

Insufficient RAM

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Formbricks / Next.js

Insufficient RAM

Public survey rendering, persisted responses and authenticated analysis.

Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

GitHub self-hosted runner

Insufficient RAM

A pinned build and test workflow with separate cold and warm dependency caches.

Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 3600000 ms · p99 ≤ 3600000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Odoo Community sales

Insufficient RAM

Customer lookup, sales order confirmation, stock operations and reporting.

Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 847 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

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.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 38.8 MB/s (9,938 IOPS) 38.9 MB/s (9,961 IOPS) 77.7 MB/s (19,899 IOPS)
64K 300.1 MB/s (4,801 IOPS) 301.7 MB/s (4,827 IOPS) 601.8 MB/s (9,628 IOPS)
512K 381.2 MB/s (762 IOPS) 401.4 MB/s (802 IOPS) 782.6 MB/s (1,564 IOPS)
1M 373 MB/s (372 IOPS) 397.8 MB/s (397 IOPS) 770.8 MB/s (769 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 busy 572 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 465 Mbps 673 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 852 Mbps 861 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 938 Mbps 969 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 757 Mbps 925 Mbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 6.9% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 848 MiB
Storage 10 GB 9.8 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 9575F 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
3295 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
848 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
9.8 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
6.9% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-137-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Starter
Location
Sydney #1
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
10 GB
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
512 GB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€3.50 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.0052 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 18, 2026, 17:51:18 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 18, 2026, 17:05:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 18, 2026, 17:49:27 UTC
Completed
Oct 18, 2026, 17:57:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 18, 2026, 17:57:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.0052 EUR
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