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UpCloud Starter 4 vCPU / 8 GB

San Jose #1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 18, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,309
Faster than 70% of 4 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
4,580
Faster than 75% of 4 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
19,956
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€24.00 EUR
163 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    UpCloud
  • Plan
    Starter 4 vCPU / 8 GB
  • Location
    San Jose #1
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    40 GB
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    01000000-0000-4000-8000-000030240200
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 18, 2026, 03:59:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,309 4,580 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
1,450
77th of 241
4,324
27th of 166
Navigation
1,523
62nd of 241
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,185
112th of 241
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,392
101st of 241
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,171
107th of 241
4,467
34th of 166
Clang
1,236
80th of 241
4,887
34th of 166
Text Processing
1,141
108th of 241
4,076
38th of 166
Asset Compression
1,274
111th of 241
5,062
38th of 166
HDR
1,047
125th of 241
3,379
45th of 166
Photo Editor
1,435
101st of 241
5,388
23rd of 166
Ray Tracer
1,381
75th of 241
5,457
33rd of 166
Structure from Motion
1,452
99th of 241
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,363
77th of 241
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,250
91st of 241
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,333
99th of 241
Single-core only
Video Player
1,420
89th 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 78 GB/s 3 19.6%
Scale higher is better 63.1 GB/s 3 14%
Add higher is better 62.7 GB/s 3 19%
Triad higher is better 64.8 GB/s 3 19.9%

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 942/s 3 0.209%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 61,411/s 3 0.125%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.82 GB/s 3 0.235%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 14.3 GB/s 3 0.0693%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 7.25 GB/s 3 0.0411%

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 4.03 ms 3 0.115%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 968/s 3 0.119%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 8.08 ms 3 4.97%
Requests per second, average higher is better 956/s 3 0.285%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 38.9 MB/s (9,966 IOPS) 39 MB/s (9,990 IOPS) 78 MB/s (19,956 IOPS)
64K 399 MB/s (6,383 IOPS) 401 MB/s (6,416 IOPS) 800 MB/s (12,799 IOPS)
512K 382.5 MB/s (764 IOPS) 402.8 MB/s (805 IOPS) 785.3 MB/s (1,569 IOPS)
1M 379.5 MB/s (379 IOPS) 404.8 MB/s (404 IOPS) 784.4 MB/s (783 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 1.06 Gbps 1.08 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.06 Gbps 1.07 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.05 Gbps 976 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.16 Gbps 1.16 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.12 Gbps 1.1 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 3,365 0.297 ms
fdatasync 3,543 0.282 ms
fsync 1,460 0.685 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,728 0.579 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,856 0.539 ms
fdatasync 2,848 0.351 ms
fsync 1,649 0.607 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 810 1.23 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 1,578 0.634 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 716 1.4 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 393 2.55 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 219 4.58 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 104 9.6 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,484 0.674 ms
write, close, fsync 1,487 0.672 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 543,007 0.002 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 1,388 0.664 ms 0.927 ms 1.69 ms 4.82 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,490 1.19 ms 2.75 ms 4.7 ms 13.3 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,155 3.66 ms 13.7 ms 24.6 ms 49 ms 0
Read only 1 22,939 0.042 ms 0.055 ms 0.065 ms 0.09 ms 0
Read only 8 85,239 0.086 ms 0.152 ms 0.186 ms 0.25 ms 0
Read only 32 103,180 0.266 ms 0.442 ms 0.536 ms 0.749 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.42 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 1,145 0.78 ms 1.06 ms 2.33 ms 10.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,172 1.31 ms 2.39 ms 10.4 ms 90.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,547 3.57 ms 7.64 ms 89.5 ms 107 ms 0
Read only 1 18,224 0.05 ms 0.068 ms 0.082 ms 0.129 ms 0
Read only 8 69,557 0.106 ms 0.185 ms 0.229 ms 0.554 ms 0
Read only 32 79,838 0.36 ms 0.556 ms 0.691 ms 1.23 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 16.6 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 1 285 5,699 3.13 ms 4.57 ms 9.73 ms 0
Read/write 8 1,060 21,194 6.32 ms 11.7 ms 51.9 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,517 30,345 20 ms 36.2 ms 56.8 ms 0
Read only 1 886 14,179 1.1 ms 1.32 ms 1.61 ms 0
Read only 8 3,496 55,930 2.22 ms 3.13 ms 4.25 ms 0
Read only 32 3,380 54,082 9.39 ms 11.7 ms 13.5 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 5.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 61,329 55,753 1.02 ms 2.02 ms 2.16 ms
1:1 set:get 60,851 30,425 1.03 ms 2.03 ms 2.22 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 1,376 4,976 7,173 304 ms
Express express-postgresjs 16,671 23,131 59,732 32.9 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 16,517 24,018 59,841 35.2 ms
NestJS nestjs 10,290 11,826 41,230 45.6 ms
Nuxt nuxt 14,589 22,413 61,337 43.6 ms
FastAPI fastapi 8,020 9,800 34,329 139 ms
Django django-postgresql 4,017 4,573 10,867 125 ms
Rails rails 6,194 8,252 32,213 86.3 ms
Laravel laravel 1,751 1,848 3,658 158 ms
Symfony symfony 2,202 2,432 6,811 124 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 4.9 326 ms 429 ms 470 ms 0%
Shop page 4.9 429 ms 551 ms 580 ms 0%
Category page 4.9 281 ms 440 ms 537 ms 0%
Product page 4.9 311 ms 413 ms 449 ms 0%
Product search 4.9 270 ms 358 ms 390 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 4.71 1.28 s 1.48 s 1.58 s 0%
Shop page 4.71 1.67 s 1.9 s 1.96 s 0%
Category page 4.71 1.32 s 1.77 s 1.89 s 0%
Product page 4.71 1.25 s 1.43 s 1.49 s 0%
Product search 4.71 1.15 s 1.31 s 1.35 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 9.37 338 ms 437 ms 474 ms 0%
Cart 9.37 292 ms 377 ms 411 ms 0%
Checkout 9.37 231 ms 299 ms 326 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 9.06 1.29 s 1.54 s 1.6 s 0%
Cart 9.06 1.21 s 1.41 s 1.48 s 0%
Checkout 9.06 1 s 1.16 s 1.22 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 63 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 2.6 173 ms 186 ms 388 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.31 88.7 ms 102 ms 112 ms 0%
Home page 1.31 156 ms 169 ms 258 ms 0%
Categories page 0.663 182 ms 194 ms 199 ms 0%
User activity page 0.646 106 ms 149 ms 200 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 8.88 199 ms 251 ms 501 ms 0%
Topic JSON 4.43 103 ms 120 ms 174 ms 0%
Home page 4.43 180 ms 218 ms 454 ms 0%
Categories page 2.23 209 ms 254 ms 516 ms 0%
User activity page 2.22 127 ms 201 ms 285 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 8.52 776 ms 971 ms 1.32 s 0%
Topic JSON 4.28 576 ms 729 ms 865 ms 0%
Home page 4.26 736 ms 966 ms 1.21 s 0%
Categories page 2.15 786 ms 1.02 s 1.43 s 0%
User activity page 2.11 640 ms 786 ms 893 ms 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 177 22.5 ms 44.1 ms 61.4 ms 0%
Topic JSON 88.6 20.8 ms 41.8 ms 63.2 ms 0%
Home page 88.6 22.8 ms 43.7 ms 62.9 ms 0%
Categories page 44.3 22.2 ms 43.4 ms 64.5 ms 0%
User activity page 44.3 133 ms 174 ms 289 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 8 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 2,823 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 10.8 27.4 ms 29.5 ms 33.8 ms 0%
Post page 27 13.9 ms 15.9 ms 21.4 ms 0%
Tag page 5.41 18.5 ms 20.5 ms 25.7 ms 0%
Author page 5.41 18.4 ms 20.2 ms 24.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.41 20.2 ms 22.1 ms 26.8 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 12.7 83.7 ms 105 ms 112 ms 0%
Post page 31.6 58.1 ms 78.1 ms 87 ms 0%
Tag page 6.34 53.5 ms 71.2 ms 80.7 ms 0%
Author page 6.32 53.7 ms 70.9 ms 79 ms 0%
RSS feed 6.31 59.6 ms 78.3 ms 86.3 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 12.6 330 ms 378 ms 396 ms 0%
Post page 31.5 266 ms 316 ms 340 ms 0%
Tag page 6.28 183 ms 224 ms 238 ms 0%
Author page 6.31 180 ms 225 ms 244 ms 0%
RSS feed 6.31 187 ms 228 ms 244 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 5.81 26.5 ms 29.3 ms 33.7 ms 0%
Post editor 17.5 9.33 ms 11.5 ms 13.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 17.4 25.4 ms 29.8 ms 44.3 ms 0%
Member list 5.81 33.1 ms 37.7 ms 45 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 7.41 33.1 ms 38 ms 40.1 ms 0%
Post editor 22.3 15 ms 19.2 ms 21.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 22.3 136 ms 167 ms 176 ms 0%
Member list 7.44 42.4 ms 46.2 ms 48.4 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 531 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 2.03 65.8 ms 69.7 ms 71.3 ms 0%
Blog index 2.03 219 ms 229 ms 233 ms 0%
Blog post 6.05 21.5 ms 33.1 ms 34.1 ms 0%
Bread page 6.07 23.8 ms 25.6 ms 26.2 ms 0%
Location page 2.03 22.7 ms 24.2 ms 25.3 ms 0%
Site search 2.01 37.9 ms 61.3 ms 63 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.19 179 ms 269 ms 296 ms 0%
Blog index 3.24 611 ms 885 ms 995 ms 0%
Blog post 9.62 49.2 ms 89.5 ms 125 ms 0%
Bread page 9.63 54.7 ms 86 ms 99 ms 0%
Location page 3.24 47.9 ms 78.4 ms 154 ms 0%
Site search 3.21 77.2 ms 171 ms 201 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 3.5 525 ms 648 ms 696 ms 0%
Blog index 3.55 1.43 s 1.65 s 1.7 s 0%
Blog post 10.5 297 ms 440 ms 541 ms 0%
Bread page 10.5 304 ms 446 ms 540 ms 0%
Location page 3.52 306 ms 445 ms 505 ms 0%
Site search 3.5 358 ms 551 ms 668 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.744 71.8 ms 77.2 ms 193 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.5 321 ms 362 ms 449 ms 0%
Page editor 2.23 151 ms 194 ms 287 ms 0%
Image library 0.744 55.8 ms 64.8 ms 473 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.744 29.9 ms 66.1 ms 67.8 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.22 240 ms 487 ms 634 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.49 666 ms 1.18 s 1.56 s 0%
Page editor 3.76 377 ms 720 ms 831 ms 0%
Image library 1.27 176 ms 452 ms 500 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.22 91.4 ms 214 ms 300 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 299 MB, Postgres at 152 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Shared vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.7 GiB
Storage 40 GB 39.3 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 7542 32-Core Processor
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2895 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
7.7 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
39.3 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% 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 4 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line
Starter
Location
San Jose #1
vCPU
4 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
40 GB
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
2.05 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€24.00 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.036 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 18, 2026, 04:00:37 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 18, 2026, 03:59:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 18, 2026, 04:00:15 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 18, 2026, 04:00:15 UTC
Completed
Oct 18, 2026, 05:35:04 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 18, 2026, 05:35:04 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.057 EUR
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