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LunaNode c.2 2 vCPU / 10 GB

Toronto

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
893
Faster than 25% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 765 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,516
Faster than 23% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,313 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
79,060
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 91,496 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$40.00
38 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    LunaNode
  • Plan
    c.2 2 vCPU / 10 GB
  • Location
    Toronto
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    10 GB
  • Storage
    200 GB SSD
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04 64-bit (template)
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC

CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core Result link
Geekbench 7 893 1,516 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
985
88th of 106
1,532
74th of 90
Navigation
1,105
83rd of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
898
86th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
970
90th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
695
92nd of 106
1,302
77th of 90
Clang
910
88th of 106
1,870
69th of 90
Text Processing
998
77th of 106
1,842
68th of 90
Asset Compression
1,074
77th of 106
2,105
65th of 90
HDR
827
88th of 106
1,564
69th of 90
Photo Editor
645
96th of 106
583
90th of 90
Ray Tracer
1,000
80th of 106
2,114
66th of 90
Structure from Motion
857
99th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
969
86th of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
815
90th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
904
94th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
785
93rd 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 35.9 GB/s 3 0.54%
Scale higher is better 18.8 GB/s 3 1.01%
Add higher is better 19.9 GB/s 3 1.14%
Triad higher is better 20 GB/s 3 0.986%

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 428/s 3 0.486%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 29,419/s 3 1.27%
SHA-256 higher is better 494 MB/s 3 0.817%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 5.42 GB/s 3 0.994%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.98 GB/s 3 0.803%

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 4.05 ms 3 0.114%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 485/s 3 0.315%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 10.3 ms 3 4.67%
Requests per second, average higher is better 477/s 3 0.216%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 154.2 MB/s (39,478 IOPS) 154.6 MB/s (39,582 IOPS) 308.8 MB/s (79,060 IOPS)
64K 1.66 GB/s (27,212 IOPS) 1.67 GB/s (27,355 IOPS) 3.33 GB/s (54,567 IOPS)
512K 1.95 GB/s (3,986 IOPS) 2.05 GB/s (4,197 IOPS) 4 GB/s (8,183 IOPS)
1M 2.05 GB/s (2,099 IOPS) 2.19 GB/s (2,239 IOPS) 4.24 GB/s (4,338 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 4,252 0.235 ms
fdatasync 4,200 0.238 ms
fsync 2,351 0.425 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,744 0.364 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,227 0.449 ms
fdatasync 3,595 0.278 ms
fsync 2,559 0.391 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,590 0.629 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,530 0.395 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,366 0.732 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 749 1.34 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 434 2.31 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 207 4.83 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,514 0.398 ms
write, close, fsync 2,460 0.406 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 303,141 0.003 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 1,139 0.818 ms 1.19 ms 1.61 ms 3.47 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,641 2.74 ms 4.99 ms 7.36 ms 12.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,632 9.82 ms 27.1 ms 43.6 ms 84.9 ms 0
Read only 1 14,262 0.064 ms 0.096 ms 0.126 ms 0.234 ms 0
Read only 8 26,649 0.27 ms 0.44 ms 0.545 ms 1.36 ms 0
Read only 32 28,898 0.942 ms 1.49 ms 2.19 ms 4.43 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.54 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) 1 922 0.973 ms 1.55 ms 2.49 ms 7.93 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,330 3.13 ms 5.12 ms 8.14 ms 48.3 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,842 10.2 ms 18.4 ms 28.2 ms 66.4 ms 0
Read only 1 10,053 0.089 ms 0.14 ms 0.209 ms 0.75 ms 0
Read only 8 21,323 0.338 ms 0.563 ms 0.819 ms 2.42 ms 0
Read only 32 22,931 1.22 ms 2.01 ms 3.03 ms 5.19 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 37.7 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 1 223 4,456 3.96 ms 7.04 ms 13.5 ms 0
Read/write 8 501 10,010 15.8 ms 25.7 ms 34.3 ms 0
Read/write 32 511 10,218 61.1 ms 103 ms 137 ms 0
Read only 1 571 9,129 1.67 ms 2.18 ms 2.97 ms 0
Read only 8 982 15,715 7.84 ms 10.3 ms 12.5 ms 0
Read only 32 909 14,536 35 ms 42.6 ms 49.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 31,441 28,582 2.02 ms 4.9 ms 7.1 ms
1:1 set:get 31,611 15,805 2.02 ms 4.74 ms 7.33 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 489 1,517 2,101 897 ms
Express express-postgresjs 6,070 7,608 17,255 77.4 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,857 8,161 17,942 83.7 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,090 3,449 11,126 127 ms
Nuxt nuxt 5,057 7,207 14,987 198 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,356 2,897 11,275 681 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,008 1,141 2,241 358 ms
Rails rails 1,403 1,996 6,961 238 ms
Laravel laravel 557 608 1,091 482 ms
Symfony symfony 668 756 1,947 446 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 1.74 914 ms 1 s 1.02 s 0%
Shop page 1.74 1.22 s 1.36 s 1.39 s 0%
Category page 1.74 773 ms 1.22 s 1.28 s 0%
Product page 1.74 830 ms 929 ms 991 ms 0%
Product search 1.74 733 ms 833 ms 868 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.81 3.28 s 3.69 s 3.74 s 0%
Shop page 1.81 4.36 s 4.92 s 4.99 s 0%
Category page 1.81 3.84 s 4.51 s 4.78 s 0%
Product page 1.8 3.37 s 3.75 s 3.84 s 0%
Product search 1.4 3.15 s 3.58 s 3.69 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.27 984 ms 1.12 s 1.16 s 0%
Cart 3.27 783 ms 917 ms 999 ms 0%
Checkout 3.27 616 ms 732 ms 765 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.28 3.29 s 4.01 s 4.1 s 0%
Cart 3.28 3.48 s 3.8 s 3.92 s 0%
Checkout 3.28 2.78 s 3.15 s 3.26 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 63 to 71 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 1.54 284 ms 380 ms 481 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.787 141 ms 175 ms 222 ms 0%
Home page 0.787 250 ms 391 ms 487 ms 0%
Categories page 0.393 281 ms 331 ms 349 ms 0%
User activity page 0.393 175 ms 306 ms 344 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.94 600 ms 778 ms 1.33 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.48 309 ms 377 ms 427 ms 0%
Home page 1.44 535 ms 679 ms 1.23 s 0%
Categories page 0.772 651 ms 1.16 s 1.32 s 0%
User activity page 0.722 343 ms 438 ms 449 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.88 1.7 s 2.1 s 2.39 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.46 1.37 s 1.68 s 1.88 s 0%
Home page 1.43 1.57 s 2.04 s 2.15 s 0%
Categories page 0.756 1.63 s 1.99 s 2.28 s 0%
User activity page 0.708 1.47 s 1.94 s 2.15 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 61.4 77.1 ms 165 ms 223 ms 0%
Topic JSON 30.8 75.1 ms 163 ms 225 ms 0%
Home page 30.7 75.8 ms 161 ms 211 ms 0%
Categories page 15.4 78.6 ms 162 ms 267 ms 0%
User activity page 15.3 229 ms 345 ms 441 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 2560 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 10 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,009 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 5.88 47 ms 62.4 ms 72 ms 0%
Post page 14.6 24.8 ms 36 ms 48.9 ms 0%
Tag page 2.93 31.8 ms 44.3 ms 56.3 ms 0%
Author page 2.93 31.8 ms 41.7 ms 51.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.93 40.9 ms 59.7 ms 76 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 7.29 146 ms 182 ms 206 ms 0%
Post page 18.2 98.5 ms 143 ms 174 ms 0%
Tag page 3.64 96 ms 139 ms 152 ms 0%
Author page 3.64 95.1 ms 135 ms 160 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.63 104 ms 140 ms 174 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.43 544 ms 664 ms 732 ms 0%
Post page 18.6 454 ms 557 ms 632 ms 0%
Tag page 3.67 302 ms 373 ms 438 ms 0%
Author page 3.72 296 ms 369 ms 414 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.7 309 ms 391 ms 436 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.1 46.3 ms 65.8 ms 78.4 ms 0%
Post editor 9.36 18.3 ms 25.8 ms 32.2 ms 0%
Saving a draft 9.34 46.1 ms 60.9 ms 68.8 ms 0%
Member list 3.12 57.4 ms 81.9 ms 105 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.9 60.3 ms 87.2 ms 123 ms 0%
Post editor 11.7 32.1 ms 47.5 ms 67.2 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.8 249 ms 325 ms 388 ms 0%
Member list 3.91 73.1 ms 95.2 ms 134 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 532 MB and MySQL at 620 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.19 107 ms 142 ms 149 ms 0%
Blog index 1.19 379 ms 474 ms 507 ms 0%
Blog post 3.55 33.2 ms 51.8 ms 57.1 ms 0%
Bread page 3.56 36.4 ms 53.8 ms 59.1 ms 0%
Location page 1.19 34.7 ms 50.8 ms 55.6 ms 0%
Site search 1.18 60.6 ms 106 ms 121 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2 269 ms 380 ms 503 ms 0%
Blog index 2.05 994 ms 1.32 s 1.38 s 0%
Blog post 6.02 76.6 ms 136 ms 181 ms 0%
Bread page 6.04 83.3 ms 125 ms 146 ms 0%
Location page 2.05 77.9 ms 117 ms 141 ms 0%
Site search 1.98 119 ms 249 ms 324 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 1.94 969 ms 1.23 s 1.29 s 0%
Blog index 2.01 2.44 s 2.95 s 3.17 s 0%
Blog post 5.86 538 ms 813 ms 943 ms 0%
Bread page 5.92 547 ms 849 ms 970 ms 0%
Location page 1.96 534 ms 823 ms 893 ms 0%
Site search 1.97 628 ms 968 ms 1.06 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.41 120 ms 173 ms 188 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.853 550 ms 673 ms 800 ms 0%
Page editor 1.26 256 ms 330 ms 422 ms 0%
Image library 0.426 95.1 ms 239 ms 916 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.41 56.3 ms 136 ms 144 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.67 381 ms 673 ms 1.06 s 0%
Page explorer 1.39 1.53 s 2.41 s 2.52 s 0%
Page editor 2.08 535 ms 1.07 s 1.13 s 0%
Image library 0.687 358 ms 674 ms 801 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.67 110 ms 307 ms 329 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 152 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Spec Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 10 GB 9.7 GiB
Storage 200 GB SSD 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 Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2600 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
9.7 GiB
Swap reported
4 GiB
Disk reported
193.7 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-106-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
c.2 2 vCPU / 10 GB
Product line
Compute-Optimized
Location
Toronto
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
10 GB
Storage
200 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
5 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$40.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.056
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 12, 2026, 05:53:59 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 05:52:36 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 07:38:06 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 07:38:06 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.10
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