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RamNode 8GB VDS

Los Angeles, CA

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 17, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,290
Faster than 63% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,283 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,327
Faster than 51% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 2,331 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
83,432
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 81,589 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$50.00
47 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    RamNode
  • Plan
    8GB VDS
  • Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    200 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04 Server Cloud
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 17, 2026, 00:10:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,290 2,327 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
1,326
103rd of 216
1,975
98th of 147
Navigation
1,680
29th of 216
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,311
78th of 216
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,409
88th of 216
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,054
119th of 216
2,084
97th of 147
Clang
1,428
39th of 216
2,707
71st of 147
Text Processing
1,356
60th of 216
2,584
65th of 147
Asset Compression
1,042
142nd of 216
2,067
103rd of 147
HDR
1,127
106th of 216
2,141
89th of 147
Photo Editor
1,364
107th of 216
2,641
73rd of 147
Ray Tracer
1,284
88th of 216
2,557
88th of 147
Structure from Motion
1,352
105th of 216
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,275
88th of 216
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,239
87th of 216
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,229
117th of 216
Single-core only
Video Player
1,291
110th of 216
Single-core only

Rank among the 216 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 21.4 GB/s 3 0.695%
Scale higher is better 23 GB/s 3 1.04%
Add higher is better 25 GB/s 3 1.93%
Triad higher is better 25.4 GB/s 3 1.32%

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 591/s 3 1.24%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 38,527/s 3 0.828%
SHA-256 higher is better 676 MB/s 3 0.223%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 9.01 GB/s 3 0.0574%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.21 GB/s 3 0.444%

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 3.17 ms 3 0.667%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 628/s 3 0.184%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 5.53 ms 3 5.79%
Requests per second, average higher is better 623/s 3 0.484%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 162.7 MB/s (41,661 IOPS) 163.2 MB/s (41,771 IOPS) 325.9 MB/s (83,432 IOPS)
64K 327.6 MB/s (5,240 IOPS) 329.3 MB/s (5,268 IOPS) 656.8 MB/s (10,508 IOPS)
512K 333.1 MB/s (666 IOPS) 350.8 MB/s (701 IOPS) 683.9 MB/s (1,367 IOPS)
1M 443 MB/s (443 IOPS) 472.5 MB/s (472 IOPS) 915.5 MB/s (915 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 4,176 0.239 ms
fdatasync 4,558 0.219 ms
fsync 1,507 0.664 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,932 0.341 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,293 0.436 ms
fdatasync 3,247 0.308 ms
fsync 954 1.05 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,464 0.683 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,688 0.372 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,458 0.686 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 994 1.01 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 424 2.36 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 221 4.53 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,516 0.398 ms
write, close, fsync 2,554 0.392 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 766,147 0.001 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 1,360 0.649 ms 1.09 ms 1.45 ms 20.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,455 1.59 ms 3.08 ms 5.1 ms 10.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,780 5.05 ms 16.4 ms 27.8 ms 74 ms 0
Read only 1 31,326 0.031 ms 0.04 ms 0.053 ms 0.09 ms 0
Read only 8 57,666 0.127 ms 0.2 ms 0.241 ms 0.431 ms 0
Read only 32 55,355 0.507 ms 0.739 ms 0.988 ms 1.86 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.76 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) 1 984 0.891 ms 1.54 ms 3.05 ms 9.78 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,489 2.02 ms 3.54 ms 12.6 ms 25.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,871 5.6 ms 11.8 ms 26.5 ms 47.1 ms 0
Read only 1 22,934 0.041 ms 0.058 ms 0.081 ms 0.279 ms 0
Read only 8 40,804 0.184 ms 0.29 ms 0.357 ms 1.22 ms 0
Read only 32 42,448 0.674 ms 1.06 ms 1.42 ms 2.46 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 20.6 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 4,463 3.68 ms 6.79 ms 23.5 ms 0
Read/write 8 750 14,997 8.43 ms 30.3 ms 47.5 ms 0
Read/write 32 859 17,173 34.3 ms 68.1 ms 95.8 ms 0
Read only 1 1,107 17,711 0.872 ms 1.14 ms 1.55 ms 0
Read only 8 1,814 29,017 4.41 ms 5.99 ms 6.79 ms 0
Read only 32 1,660 26,555 19.3 ms 24.4 ms 26.7 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 12.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 85,385 77,622 0.423 ms 2.58 ms 4.48 ms
1:1 set:get 85,564 42,782 0.407 ms 2.58 ms 4.48 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 703 2,227 3,032 590 ms
Express express-postgresjs 7,694 10,886 39,965 63.1 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 6,927 11,462 47,473 63.1 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,042 5,449 21,976 85.2 ms
Nuxt nuxt 6,712 10,104 35,586 75.8 ms
FastAPI fastapi 4,039 5,117 23,786 349 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,568 1,909 3,976 235 ms
Rails rails 2,304 3,326 12,962 162 ms
Laravel laravel 910 956 1,622 304 ms
Symfony symfony 983 1,067 3,104 273 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 2.51 633 ms 735 ms 768 ms 0%
Shop page 2.51 870 ms 983 ms 996 ms 0%
Category page 2.51 550 ms 828 ms 867 ms 0%
Product page 2.51 583 ms 696 ms 710 ms 0%
Product search 2.51 503 ms 610 ms 639 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.53 2.33 s 2.57 s 2.62 s 0%
Shop page 2.53 3.06 s 3.43 s 3.54 s 0%
Category page 2.53 2.65 s 3.08 s 3.26 s 0%
Product page 2.53 2.32 s 2.49 s 2.59 s 0%
Product search 2.53 2.16 s 2.31 s 2.37 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.75 683 ms 776 ms 798 ms 0%
Cart 4.75 550 ms 631 ms 656 ms 0%
Checkout 4.75 436 ms 501 ms 518 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 4.83 2.24 s 2.69 s 2.75 s 0%
Cart 4.83 2.37 s 2.57 s 2.63 s 0%
Checkout 4.83 1.9 s 2.14 s 2.2 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 2.4 187 ms 219 ms 467 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.21 92.5 ms 102 ms 107 ms 0%
Home page 1.21 168 ms 183 ms 349 ms 0%
Categories page 0.595 196 ms 214 ms 240 ms 0%
User activity page 0.595 111 ms 133 ms 178 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.71 383 ms 507 ms 829 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.33 201 ms 238 ms 284 ms 0%
Home page 2.35 330 ms 412 ms 580 ms 0%
Categories page 1.2 397 ms 651 ms 879 ms 0%
User activity page 1.16 234 ms 308 ms 702 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 4.26 1.46 s 1.78 s 2 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.16 1.29 s 1.56 s 1.64 s 0%
Home page 2.11 1.43 s 1.72 s 1.91 s 0%
Categories page 1.1 1.45 s 1.78 s 2.23 s 0%
User activity page 1.05 1.29 s 1.64 s 1.85 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 101 43.9 ms 110 ms 135 ms 0%
Topic JSON 50.4 40.6 ms 108 ms 142 ms 0%
Home page 50.3 43.4 ms 111 ms 146 ms 0%
Categories page 25.2 41.6 ms 109 ms 149 ms 0%
User activity page 25.2 145 ms 221 ms 322 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 2048 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 8 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,160 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 8.5 32.3 ms 40.6 ms 60.9 ms 0%
Post page 21.2 17.1 ms 23 ms 35.2 ms 0%
Tag page 4.25 22.9 ms 29.4 ms 50.7 ms 0%
Author page 4.23 22.8 ms 30.4 ms 53.7 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.23 29.1 ms 34.8 ms 42 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 11.5 92.6 ms 117 ms 145 ms 0%
Post page 28.8 63.1 ms 87.4 ms 98 ms 0%
Tag page 5.78 58.4 ms 81.6 ms 94.5 ms 0%
Author page 5.76 59.7 ms 82.3 ms 89.7 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.74 66.6 ms 89.3 ms 99.3 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 11.7 343 ms 408 ms 455 ms 0%
Post page 29.4 287 ms 345 ms 390 ms 0%
Tag page 5.85 186 ms 234 ms 269 ms 0%
Author page 5.88 188 ms 231 ms 265 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.88 195 ms 241 ms 281 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.97 28.3 ms 34.6 ms 39.5 ms 0%
Post editor 15 11.1 ms 13.9 ms 17.7 ms 0%
Saving a draft 15 31.5 ms 37 ms 42.1 ms 0%
Member list 4.99 32.7 ms 42.8 ms 47.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 6.63 36.6 ms 41.9 ms 47.6 ms 0%
Post editor 20 15.4 ms 22.2 ms 27.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 20 153 ms 185 ms 202 ms 0%
Member list 6.68 40.2 ms 46.6 ms 60.8 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 538 MB and MySQL at 620 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.68 76.2 ms 87.3 ms 104 ms 0%
Blog index 1.68 271 ms 295 ms 364 ms 0%
Blog post 5 24.8 ms 37 ms 43.8 ms 0%
Bread page 5.02 27.5 ms 34 ms 35.5 ms 0%
Location page 1.68 26 ms 32.9 ms 46.3 ms 0%
Site search 1.66 44.6 ms 75.4 ms 80.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.28 170 ms 220 ms 235 ms 0%
Blog index 3.31 604 ms 745 ms 778 ms 0%
Blog post 9.84 47.9 ms 81.8 ms 101 ms 0%
Bread page 9.87 53.3 ms 73.2 ms 86.1 ms 0%
Location page 3.33 50 ms 71.5 ms 84.5 ms 0%
Site search 3.26 81.2 ms 148 ms 184 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 3.08 595 ms 834 ms 1.03 s 0%
Blog index 3.19 1.55 s 1.85 s 2.06 s 0%
Blog post 9.32 333 ms 591 ms 804 ms 0%
Bread page 9.32 330 ms 578 ms 818 ms 0%
Location page 3.13 307 ms 495 ms 749 ms 0%
Site search 3.11 378 ms 632 ms 920 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.74 81.9 ms 91 ms 104 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.5 309 ms 389 ms 452 ms 0%
Page editor 2.22 150 ms 190 ms 291 ms 0%
Image library 0.74 61.8 ms 70.2 ms 501 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.74 36.2 ms 72.5 ms 74.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.31 200 ms 453 ms 529 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.67 667 ms 1.14 s 1.31 s 0%
Page editor 4.02 330 ms 654 ms 761 ms 0%
Image library 1.33 177 ms 392 ms 553 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.31 83.4 ms 264 ms 357 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. 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 301 MB, Postgres at 163 MB, and Redis at 47 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 200 GB NVMe 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 Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3492 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
193.7 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-51-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
8GB VDS
Product line
Cloud VDS
Location
Los Angeles, CA
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
200 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
10 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$50.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.074
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 17, 2026, 00:10:46 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 17, 2026, 00:10:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 17, 2026, 00:10:40 UTC
Completed
Oct 17, 2026, 01:45:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 17, 2026, 01:45:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.12
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