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UpCloud Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB

San Jose #1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 7, 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: 19,951 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
€3.50 EUR
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    UpCloud
  • Plan
    Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    San Jose #1
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    10 GB
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    01000000-0000-4000-8000-000030240200
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 7, 2026, 07:28:00 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.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 32 GB/s 3 1.2%
Scale higher is better 20.7 GB/s 3 0.663%
Add higher is better 22.3 GB/s 3 0.401%
Triad higher is better 23.5 GB/s 3 0.422%

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 0.477%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 15,215/s 3 0.348%
SHA-256 higher is better 701 MB/s 3 0.344%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.55 GB/s 3 0.115%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.8 GB/s 3 0.321%

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%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 246/s 3 0.407%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 7.48 ms 3 7.78%
Requests per second, average higher is better 246/s 3 0.123%

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 MB/s (6,384 IOPS) 401.1 MB/s (6,418 IOPS) 800.2 MB/s (12,802 IOPS)
512K 382.2 MB/s (764 IOPS) 402.5 MB/s (804 IOPS) 784.7 MB/s (1,568 IOPS)
1M 378.9 MB/s (378 IOPS) 404.1 MB/s (404 IOPS) 783 MB/s (782 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 1.08 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 940 Mbps 992 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.16 Gbps 1.16 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.13 Gbps 1.07 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 3,367 0.297 ms
fdatasync 3,495 0.286 ms
fsync 1,700 0.588 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,910 0.524 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,665 0.6 ms
fdatasync 2,955 0.338 ms
fsync 1,416 0.706 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 821 1.22 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 1,458 0.686 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 787 1.27 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 514 1.94 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 196 5.09 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 113 8.87 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,473 0.679 ms
write, close, fsync 1,700 0.588 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 542,863 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 1,484 0.605 ms 0.911 ms 2.23 ms 5.96 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,781 2.48 ms 4.84 ms 8.11 ms 22.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,798 8.7 ms 27.1 ms 47.5 ms 84.9 ms 0
Read only 1 26,969 0.035 ms 0.047 ms 0.057 ms 0.159 ms 0
Read only 8 30,305 0.225 ms 0.398 ms 0.458 ms 0.949 ms 0
Read only 32 30,476 0.894 ms 1.35 ms 1.53 ms 2.5 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.13 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) 1 856 1.01 ms 1.68 ms 4.18 ms 22 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,897 3.35 ms 6.48 ms 15.5 ms 83.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,139 12.9 ms 21.9 ms 76.4 ms 99.4 ms 0
Read only 1 3,316 0.291 ms 0.447 ms 1.36 ms 3.42 ms 0
Read only 8 6,122 0.778 ms 1.64 ms 35.9 ms 42.5 ms 0
Read only 32 6,184 2.53 ms 37.5 ms 49.9 ms 52.6 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 22.7 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 1 262 5,243 3.25 ms 5.99 ms 13 ms 0
Read/write 8 469 9,382 15.8 ms 26.2 ms 41.1 ms 0
Read/write 32 512 10,240 57.9 ms 99.3 ms 132 ms 0
Read only 1 942 15,073 1.01 ms 1.32 ms 1.79 ms 0
Read only 8 937 14,985 8.43 ms 9.56 ms 11.9 ms 0
Read only 32 868 13,891 36.2 ms 41.9 ms 46.6 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 15.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 35,797 32,542 1.66 ms 3.28 ms 5.28 ms
1:1 set:get 35,320 17,660 1.69 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
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.27 1.15 s 1.25 s 1.27 s 0%
Shop page 1.27 1.5 s 1.7 s 1.71 s 0%
Category page 1.27 1.37 s 1.56 s 1.67 s 0%
Product page 1.27 1.13 s 1.28 s 1.35 s 0%
Product search 1.27 1.08 s 1.15 s 1.17 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.36 4.43 s 5.02 s 5.08 s 0%
Shop page 1.36 5.92 s 6.69 s 6.79 s 0%
Category page 1.36 5.54 s 6.46 s 6.65 s 0%
Product page 1.27 4.6 s 4.75 s 4.79 s 0%
Product search 0.906 4.34 s 4.64 s 4.67 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.42 1.07 s 1.29 s 1.32 s 0%
Cart 2.42 1.16 s 1.24 s 1.27 s 0%
Checkout 2.42 916 ms 1.03 s 1.04 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.5 4.12 s 5.09 s 5.18 s 0%
Cart 2.5 4.71 s 5.06 s 5.14 s 0%
Checkout 2.5 3.72 s 4.2 s 4.27 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 7, 2026, 07:30:17 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 7, 2026, 07:28:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 7, 2026, 07:29:24 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 7, 2026, 07:29:24 UTC
Completed
Oct 7, 2026, 08:39:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 7, 2026, 08:39:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.0062 EUR
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