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DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB

San Francisco 3

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 19, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
53,574
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
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Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    San Francisco 3
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB NVMe
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 18, 2026, 17:05:00 UTC
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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 104.5 MB/s (26,752 IOPS) 104.8 MB/s (26,822 IOPS) 209.3 MB/s (53,574 IOPS)
64K 689.4 MB/s (11,030 IOPS) 693 MB/s (11,088 IOPS) 1.35 GB/s (22,118 IOPS)
512K 315.3 MB/s (630 IOPS) 332 MB/s (664 IOPS) 647.3 MB/s (1,294 IOPS)
1M 197.4 MB/s (197 IOPS) 210.6 MB/s (210 IOPS) 408 MB/s (407 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, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.99 Gbps 1.89 Gbps
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 1.27 Gbps 1.33 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.11 Gbps 1.16 Gbps

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

Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Failed

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

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

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, 961 MiB detected.

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

Redis cache

Measured

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

RepeatOffered / soperations/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
1100010001.73 / 1.90 / 0Met workload limits
150004999.981.76 / 1.990 / 0Met workload limits
1100009999.21.09 / 1.810 / 139Met workload limits
12500023428.3816.39 / 24.630 / 282862load generator saturated
2100010001.76 / 1.960 / 0Met workload limits
250004999.971.76 / 2.020 / 0Met workload limits
2100009999.571.09 / 1.790 / 68Met workload limits
22500023280.4316.74 / 24.890 / 309147load generator saturated

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

Redis persistent queue

Measured

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

RepeatOffered / sjobs/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001004.16 / 4.760 / 0Met workload limits
15005003.15 / 3.540 / 0Met workload limits
1100010003.15 / 3.630 / 0Met workload limits
130002999.984.82 / 10.680 / 0Met workload limits
21001004.22 / 4.880 / 0Met workload limits
25005003.15 / 3.720 / 0Met workload limits
2100010003.23 / 4.110 / 0Met workload limits
230002992.5510.91 / 87.030 / 1339latency limit exceeded

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, 961 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, 961 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, 961 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, 961 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, 961 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, 961 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, 961 MiB detected.

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

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 0.2% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 961 MiB
Storage 25 GB NVMe 24.1 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
DO-Premium-AMD
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
1996 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
961 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
24.1 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.2% 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
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Basic AMD
Location
San Francisco 3
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
25 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
1 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.010
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 19, 2026, 02:05:55 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 18, 2026, 17:05:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 19, 2026, 02:04:20 UTC
Completed
Oct 19, 2026, 03:18:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 19, 2026, 03:18:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.013
TestResultTime
PostgreSQL large dataset Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Discourse community Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
n8n workflows Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
n8n queue workers Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Ghost publishing Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Formbricks / Next.js Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Elasticsearch search and ingestion Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
GitHub self-hosted runner Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Odoo Community sales Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
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