# UpCloud Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB

[San Jose #1](https://rackcensus.com/locations/san-jose-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in San Jose")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 8, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

Skipped

Geekbench 7 multi-core

Skipped

Disk 4K IOPS

19,949

fio random read and write, 50/50

Median here: 19,949 over 3 runs in 90 days

Monthly price at test time

€3.50 EUR

Same price today

## Server

[UpCloud](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/upcloud-benchmarks)[Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB](https://rackcensus.com/plans/wn4ded-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-benchmarks?location=us-sjo1)

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Provider

UpCloud

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Plan

Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB

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Location

San Jose #1

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vCPU

1

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RAM

1 GB

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Storage

10 GB

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Network

Unknown

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OS image

01000000-0000-4000-8000-000030240200

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 8, 2026, 07:29:00 UTC

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## Latest runs of this plan

- [New York #1 Oct 8, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/stmvor-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-us-nyc1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Amsterdam #1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/elq8tn-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-nl-ams1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Frankfurt #1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/lg5sy9-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-de-fra1-benchmark)Skipped
- [San Jose #1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/i7bhws-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-us-sjo1-benchmark)Skipped
- [New York #1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/0nuc7d-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-us-nyc1-benchmark)Skipped

[Full history of this plan](https://rackcensus.com/plans/wn4ded-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-benchmarks/history)

## 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.

## Memory, TLS and scheduler

### Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

| Test | Result | Runs | Spread |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Copy higher is better | 31.4 GB/s | 3 | 1.18% |
| Scale higher is better | 20.1 GB/s | 3 | 1.03% |
| Add higher is better | 23.4 GB/s | 3 | 0.569% |
| Triad higher is better | 22.2 GB/s | 3 | 1.81% |

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 | 234/s | 3 | 0.278% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 15,220/s | 3 | 0.372% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 698 MB/s | 3 | 0.159% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 3.53 GB/s | 3 | 0.467% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 1.8 GB/s | 3 | 0.144% |

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 | 246/s | 3 | 0.235% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 7.24 ms | 3 | 1.93% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 245/s | 3 | 0.069% |

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 (9,963 IOPS) | 39 MB/s (9,986 IOPS) | 77.9 MB/s (19,949 IOPS) |
| 64K | 399.4 MB/s (6,390 IOPS) | 401.5 MB/s (6,424 IOPS) | 800.9 MB/s (12,814 IOPS) |
| 512K | 382.2 MB/s (764 IOPS) | 402.5 MB/s (804 IOPS) | 784.7 MB/s (1,568 IOPS) |
| 1M | 379.4 MB/s (379 IOPS) | 404.7 MB/s (404 IOPS) | 784.1 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 | 1.05 Gbps | 1.08 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 1.06 Gbps | 1.07 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 1.05 Gbps | 970 Mbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.16 Gbps | 1.17 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.12 Gbps | 1.13 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 | 2,982 | 0.335 ms |
| fdatasync | 3,198 | 0.313 ms |
| fsync | 1,742 | 0.574 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 1,799 | 0.556 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 1,717 | 0.582 ms |
| fdatasync | 2,926 | 0.342 ms |
| fsync | 1,600 | 0.625 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 943 | 1.06 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 1,742 | 0.574 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 864 | 1.16 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 440 | 2.28 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 227 | 4.41 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 117 | 8.52 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 1,643 | 0.609 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 1,688 | 0.592 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 540,830 | 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 | 1,453 | 0.595 ms | 0.963 ms | 2.12 ms | 11.8 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 2,818 | 2.49 ms | 4.88 ms | 7.23 ms | 22.2 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,812 | 8.81 ms | 27 ms | 48.4 ms | 88.8 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 26,741 | 0.035 ms | 0.047 ms | 0.058 ms | 0.151 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 29,531 | 0.231 ms | 0.414 ms | 0.472 ms | 1.08 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 30,052 | 0.911 ms | 1.35 ms | 1.54 ms | 2.69 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.18 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 | 885 | 0.98 ms | 1.69 ms | 4.07 ms | 21.6 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 1,929 | 3.36 ms | 6.45 ms | 14.5 ms | 82.2 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,167 | 12.9 ms | 21.8 ms | 70.3 ms | 88.8 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 3,170 | 0.303 ms | 0.513 ms | 1.36 ms | 2.8 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 6,102 | 0.792 ms | 1.7 ms | 32 ms | 41.7 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 6,173 | 2.57 ms | 39.6 ms | 49.3 ms | 52.3 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 22.6 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 | 274 | 5,479 | 3.19 ms | 5.67 ms | 12.3 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 477 | 9,537 | 15.8 ms | 24.8 ms | 35.6 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 507 | 10,143 | 58.9 ms | 101 ms | 126 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 926 | 14,820 | 1.03 ms | 1.34 ms | 1.86 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 913 | 14,612 | 8.58 ms | 9.91 ms | 12.1 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 876 | 14,008 | 36.2 ms | 41.9 ms | 45.8 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 15 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 35,666 | 32,424 | 1.66 ms | 3.31 ms | 5.54 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 35,510 | 17,755 | 1.66 ms | 3.31 ms | 5.38 ms |

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 1 thread, 60 s per ratio.

## Web frameworks

| Framework | Fortunes req/s | Single query req/s | JSON req/s | Fortunes p99 at 256 connections |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Next.js | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Express | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Fastify | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| NestJS | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Nuxt | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| FastAPI | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Django | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Rails | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Laravel | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Symfony | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |

### WooCommerce

#### Page mix

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.26 | 1.15 s | 1.26 s | 1.27 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.26 | 1.5 s | 1.71 s | 1.73 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.26 | 1.38 s | 1.65 s | 1.7 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.26 | 1.17 s | 1.28 s | 1.29 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.26 | 1.07 s | 1.16 s | 1.18 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.36 | 4.39 s | 4.99 s | 5.05 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.36 | 5.88 s | 6.65 s | 6.79 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.36 | 5.47 s | 6.46 s | 6.64 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.33 | 4.53 s | 4.73 s | 4.77 s | 0% |
| Product search | 0.907 | 4.29 s | 4.58 s | 4.65 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 2.4 | 1.09 s | 1.31 s | 1.34 s | 0% |
| Cart | 2.4 | 1.18 s | 1.27 s | 1.32 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 2.4 | 920 ms | 1.04 s | 1.06 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 2.44 | 4.24 s | 5.21 s | 5.31 s | 0% |
| Cart | 2.44 | 4.8 s | 5.21 s | 5.25 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 2.44 | 3.82 s | 4.28 s | 4.39 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.

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 1 | 1 |
| CPU | Shared vCPU | 0.2% of busy CPU time stolen |
| RAM | 1 GB | 849 MiB |
| Storage | 10 GB | 9.8 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:** 1

**CPU frequency:** 2895 MHz

**AES-NI:** Yes

**VM-x/AMD-V:** No

**RAM reported:** 849 MiB

**Swap reported:** 0 MiB

**Disk reported:** 9.8 GiB

**Virtualization reported:** KVM

**CPU steal:** 0.2% 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 1 vCPU / 1 GB

**Product line:** Starter

**Location:** San Jose #1

**vCPU:** 1 shared vCPU

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**RAM:** 1 GB

**Storage:** 10 GB

**Virtualization:** KVM

**Network:** Unknown

**Transfer:** 512 GB

**Port 25:** Unknown

**Monthly price at test time:** €3.50 EUR

**Hourly price at test time:** €0.0052 EUR

**YABS version:** v2026-09-20

**Ran at:** Oct 8, 2026, 07:32:37 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 8, 2026, 07:29:00 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 8, 2026, 07:30:25 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 8, 2026, 08:41:04 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 8, 2026, 08:41:04 UTC

**Cost of this run:** €0.0063 EUR

Tests 35 of 35 done Live output 688 lines

Setup 1 cores, 848.5 MiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 81.7 MB/s at 4k, 822 MB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.06 Gbit/s send, 1.08 Gbit/s receive 5 of 5Done

Phoronix (memory, TLS, scheduler) 3 of 3Done

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

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