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Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 4

Chicago, US

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 17, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
574
Faster than 4% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 581 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
9,751
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 9,806 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$33.93
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Server

  • Provider
    Cherry Servers
  • Plan
    Cloud VPS 4
  • Location
    Chicago, US
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    1 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu_24_04_64bit
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 17, 2026, 08:46:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 574 Skipped Geekbench Browser

Multi-core was skipped because Geekbench 7 needs about 4.2 GB of free memory to run 4 threads, and this server didn't have that much. Single-core needs much less, so it still ran.

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
599
234th of 241
Single-core only
Navigation
624
232nd of 241
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
603
217th of 241
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
572
233rd of 241
Single-core only
Photo Library
526
222nd of 241
Single-core only
Clang
477
235th of 241
Single-core only
Text Processing
518
227th of 241
Single-core only
Asset Compression
571
230th of 241
Single-core only
HDR
609
222nd of 241
Single-core only
Photo Editor
591
220th of 241
Single-core only
Ray Tracer
587
223rd of 241
Single-core only
Structure from Motion
606
234th of 241
Single-core only
Game Physics
540
227th of 241
Single-core only
Video Encoder
558
223rd of 241
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
585
231st of 241
Single-core only
Video Player
652
211th of 241
Single-core only

Rank among the 241 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 110 GB/s 3 14.8%
Scale higher is better 73.7 GB/s 3 11.3%
Add higher is better 85.5 GB/s 3 14.7%
Triad higher is better 83.4 GB/s 3 12.7%

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 357/s 3 2.13%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 22,552/s 3 2.94%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.31 GB/s 3 0.507%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 6.13 GB/s 3 1.96%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 3.55 GB/s 3 0.845%

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 5.12 ms 3 0.361%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 350/s 3 0.165%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 550 ms 3 0%
Requests per second, average higher is better 325/s 3 2.2%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 19 MB/s (4,876 IOPS) 19 MB/s (4,875 IOPS) 38.1 MB/s (9,751 IOPS)
64K 200.9 MB/s (3,213 IOPS) 201.9 MB/s (3,230 IOPS) 402.8 MB/s (6,443 IOPS)
512K 191.8 MB/s (383 IOPS) 202 MB/s (403 IOPS) 393.8 MB/s (786 IOPS)
1M 189.4 MB/s (189 IOPS) 202 MB/s (201 IOPS) 391.3 MB/s (390 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 2,805 0.356 ms
fdatasync 2,670 0.375 ms
fsync 2,057 0.486 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,166 0.462 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,337 0.748 ms
fdatasync 2,273 0.44 ms
fsync 1,660 0.603 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 959 1.04 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 1,745 0.573 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 964 1.04 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 504 1.98 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 249 4.02 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 147 6.79 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,723 0.581 ms
write, close, fsync 1,688 0.592 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 208,173 0.005 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) 1 785 0.598 ms 0.723 ms 0.828 ms 544 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,457 1.38 ms 2.46 ms 3.8 ms 546 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,707 4.23 ms 13.8 ms 487 ms 567 ms 0
Read only 1 9,426 0.046 ms 0.068 ms 0.083 ms 0.115 ms 0
Read only 8 31,294 0.103 ms 0.203 ms 0.26 ms 0.651 ms 0
Read only 32 33,941 0.343 ms 0.675 ms 1.16 ms 10.8 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.35 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) 1 785 0.643 ms 0.844 ms 4.39 ms 542 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,125 1.58 ms 3.36 ms 17.2 ms 542 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,949 4.48 ms 17.9 ms 73.8 ms 554 ms 0
Read only 1 6,145 0.065 ms 0.16 ms 0.217 ms 1.39 ms 0
Read only 8 24,618 0.129 ms 0.263 ms 0.375 ms 1.97 ms 0
Read only 32 26,608 0.452 ms 0.877 ms 1.7 ms 546 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 30.8 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 1 179 3,585 2.81 ms 4.1 ms 18.3 ms 0
Read/write 8 477 9,543 7.17 ms 22.7 ms 484 ms 0
Read/write 32 574 11,478 23.9 ms 560 ms 580 ms 0
Read only 1 364 5,820 1.23 ms 1.61 ms 1.86 ms 0
Read only 8 1,168 18,687 3.02 ms 5.28 ms 7.99 ms 0
Read only 32 1,145 18,325 11.9 ms 24.8 ms 570 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 9.5 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 25,505 23,186 1.09 ms 2.22 ms 549 ms
1:1 set:get 25,317 12,658 1.1 ms 2.29 ms 549 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 496 1,897 2,505 1.15 s
Express express-postgresjs 8,040 10,043 23,562 563 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 8,168 11,181 26,065 563 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,541 4,147 13,604 591 ms
Nuxt nuxt 6,831 9,312 21,417 566 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,650 3,270 12,775 797 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,057 1,152 2,309 777 ms
Rails rails 1,824 2,330 9,256 590 ms
Laravel laravel 639 676 1,266 756 ms
Symfony symfony 824 884 2,375 702 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 1.9 932 ms 1.11 s 1.58 s 0%
Shop page 1.9 1.04 s 1.69 s 1.81 s 0%
Category page 1.9 856 ms 1.08 s 1.68 s 0%
Product page 1.9 872 ms 1.03 s 1.07 s 0%
Product search 1.9 836 ms 957 ms 1 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.93 3.19 s 4.07 s 4.53 s 0%
Shop page 1.93 4.01 s 5.05 s 6.03 s 0%
Category page 1.93 3.1 s 4.16 s 4.85 s 0%
Product page 1.93 3.06 s 3.9 s 3.97 s 0%
Product search 1.93 2.87 s 3.61 s 3.88 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.71 937 ms 1.09 s 1.6 s 0%
Cart 3.71 848 ms 998 ms 1.04 s 0%
Checkout 3.71 655 ms 894 ms 939 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.64 3.11 s 4.04 s 4.24 s 0%
Cart 3.64 2.96 s 3.91 s 4.13 s 0%
Checkout 3.64 2.31 s 3.09 s 3.33 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 66 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 1.52 198 ms 663 ms 685 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.761 103 ms 558 ms 588 ms 0%
Home page 0.761 179 ms 633 ms 640 ms 0%
Categories page 0.38 218 ms 708 ms 786 ms 0%
User activity page 0.38 119 ms 449 ms 472 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 3.54 723 ms 846 ms 1.09 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.78 123 ms 677 ms 688 ms 0%
Home page 1.78 261 ms 819 ms 936 ms 0%
Categories page 0.89 747 ms 834 ms 925 ms 0%
User activity page 0.874 147 ms 753 ms 869 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.18 2.02 s 2.9 s 4.02 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.6 1.72 s 1.97 s 2.83 s 0%
Home page 1.55 1.97 s 2.71 s 4.1 s 0%
Categories page 0.808 2.04 s 2.71 s 3.08 s 0%
User activity page 0.792 1.71 s 2.03 s 2.54 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 63.9 27.9 ms 569 ms 602 ms 0%
Topic JSON 32 27.1 ms 567 ms 601 ms 0%
Home page 32 28.2 ms 574 ms 609 ms 0%
Categories page 16 27.4 ms 571 ms 619 ms 0%
User activity page 16 182 ms 787 ms 985 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 8 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 2,637 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 5.49 31.6 ms 46.5 ms 554 ms 0%
Post page 13.7 16.7 ms 22.1 ms 484 ms 0%
Tag page 2.74 22.1 ms 153 ms 534 ms 0%
Author page 2.73 21.7 ms 234 ms 452 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.73 26.8 ms 200 ms 544 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 4.98 103 ms 659 ms 673 ms 0%
Post page 12.4 74.6 ms 627 ms 648 ms 0%
Tag page 2.51 64.5 ms 618 ms 633 ms 0%
Author page 2.46 64.8 ms 606 ms 619 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.46 70.7 ms 612 ms 629 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 4.97 919 ms 985 ms 1.02 s 0%
Post page 12.4 842 ms 921 ms 951 ms 0%
Tag page 2.49 241 ms 795 ms 815 ms 0%
Author page 2.48 251 ms 816 ms 833 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.46 249 ms 803 ms 827 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 2.97 30.4 ms 287 ms 534 ms 0%
Post editor 8.95 11.3 ms 15.4 ms 370 ms 0%
Saving a draft 8.95 29.1 ms 57.3 ms 526 ms 0%
Member list 2.99 36.2 ms 320 ms 534 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 2.89 42.7 ms 586 ms 592 ms 0%
Post editor 8.71 20.8 ms 28.5 ms 566 ms 0%
Saving a draft 8.74 171 ms 727 ms 742 ms 0%
Member list 2.91 47.2 ms 589 ms 598 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 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 301 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.56 79.1 ms 99.3 ms 185 ms 0%
Blog index 1.55 271 ms 536 ms 606 ms 0%
Blog post 4.66 25.4 ms 38 ms 45.6 ms 0%
Bread page 4.66 27.7 ms 31.9 ms 35.4 ms 0%
Location page 1.56 26.3 ms 29.9 ms 35 ms 0%
Site search 1.55 43.6 ms 74.3 ms 154 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.21 207 ms 496 ms 558 ms 0%
Blog index 2.22 926 ms 1.32 s 1.39 s 0%
Blog post 6.6 55.4 ms 282 ms 362 ms 0%
Bread page 6.62 59 ms 263 ms 415 ms 0%
Location page 2.24 55.3 ms 275 ms 357 ms 0%
Site search 2.19 83 ms 400 ms 460 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.2 881 ms 1.08 s 1.25 s 0%
Blog index 2.24 2.26 s 2.74 s 2.87 s 0%
Blog post 6.61 452 ms 763 ms 929 ms 0%
Bread page 6.64 480 ms 802 ms 910 ms 0%
Location page 2.25 542 ms 791 ms 966 ms 0%
Site search 2.19 563 ms 849 ms 968 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.48 87 ms 109 ms 175 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.992 413 ms 920 ms 1.06 s 0%
Page editor 1.47 181 ms 509 ms 718 ms 0%
Image library 0.496 67.6 ms 185 ms 764 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.48 36.8 ms 113 ms 412 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.831 334 ms 764 ms 880 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.7 1.04 s 1.79 s 1.91 s 0%
Page editor 2.53 505 ms 1.02 s 1.07 s 0%
Image library 0.831 227 ms 656 ms 738 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.831 132 ms 522 ms 632 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 295 MB, Postgres at 182 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 4
CPU Shared vCPU 50.5% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 80 GB SSD 77.4 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
3000 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
77.4 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
50.5% 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
Cloud VPS 4
Product line
Cloud VPS
Location
Chicago, US
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
80 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
1 Gbps
Transfer
5 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$33.93
Hourly price at test time
$0.059
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 17, 2026, 11:48:15 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 17, 2026, 08:46:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 17, 2026, 08:48:06 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 17, 2026, 08:48:06 UTC
Completed
Oct 17, 2026, 10:28:02 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 17, 2026, 10:28:02 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.099
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