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DigitalOcean General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB

New York 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 16, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
969
Faster than 29% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,157
Faster than 8% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
86,245
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$63.00
18 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB
  • Location
    New York 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB SSD
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 16, 2026, 17:45:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 969 1,157 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
1,009
156th of 216
1,062
137th of 147
Navigation
1,197
132nd of 216
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
971
144th of 216
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,075
147th of 216
Single-core only
Photo Library
959
131st of 216
1,199
127th of 147
Clang
1,049
133rd of 216
1,321
131st of 147
Text Processing
995
137th of 216
1,045
140th of 147
Asset Compression
794
179th of 216
1,098
140th of 147
HDR
885
144th of 216
1,044
137th of 147
Photo Editor
1,011
145th of 216
1,266
129th of 147
Ray Tracer
875
170th of 216
1,263
138th of 147
Structure from Motion
1,093
151st of 216
Single-core only
Game Physics
898
167th of 216
Single-core only
Video Encoder
895
155th of 216
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
965
160th of 216
Single-core only
Video Player
911
155th 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 11.1 GB/s 3 0.388%
Scale higher is better 12 GB/s 3 0.318%
Add higher is better 12.6 GB/s 3 0.232%
Triad higher is better 12.6 GB/s 3 0.317%

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 244/s 3 0.342%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 15,782/s 3 1.86%
SHA-256 higher is better 273 MB/s 3 0.115%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.59 GB/s 3 0.653%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.33 GB/s 3 0.399%

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 7.44 ms 3 0.248%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 266/s 3 0.217%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 13.8 ms 3 2.16%
Requests per second, average higher is better 266/s 3 0.252%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 168.2 MB/s (43,066 IOPS) 168.7 MB/s (43,179 IOPS) 336.9 MB/s (86,245 IOPS)
64K 1.39 GB/s (22,774 IOPS) 1.4 GB/s (22,894 IOPS) 2.79 GB/s (45,668 IOPS)
512K 1021 MB/s (2,041 IOPS) 1.05 GB/s (2,150 IOPS) 2.05 GB/s (4,191 IOPS)
1M 1.33 GB/s (1,361 IOPS) 1.42 GB/s (1,451 IOPS) 2.75 GB/s (2,812 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 1.81 Gbps 1.79 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.87 Gbps 1.78 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 652 Mbps 821 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.9 Gbps 1.82 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.01 Gbps 1.89 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 8,579 0.117 ms
fdatasync 8,184 0.122 ms
fsync 6,351 0.157 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 6,731 0.149 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,315 0.232 ms
fdatasync 7,569 0.132 ms
fsync 5,957 0.168 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,416 0.293 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 6,678 0.15 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 3,443 0.29 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,782 0.561 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 824 1.21 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 432 2.31 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 5,977 0.167 ms
write, close, fsync 5,969 0.168 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,165,898 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 1,877 0.52 ms 0.655 ms 0.857 ms 2.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,707 2.01 ms 3.4 ms 4.6 ms 9.64 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,227 8.25 ms 21.5 ms 34.3 ms 54.6 ms 0
Read only 1 26,311 0.032 ms 0.059 ms 0.076 ms 0.123 ms 0
Read only 8 32,446 0.23 ms 0.366 ms 0.448 ms 1.18 ms 0
Read only 32 33,238 0.871 ms 1.29 ms 1.76 ms 3.13 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.6 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.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,719 0.568 ms 0.723 ms 1.46 ms 3 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,321 2.3 ms 3.35 ms 5.43 ms 9.75 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,686 8.33 ms 12.9 ms 16.4 ms 22.1 ms 0
Read only 1 18,415 0.05 ms 0.083 ms 0.11 ms 0.44 ms 0
Read only 8 25,399 0.297 ms 0.467 ms 0.585 ms 2.17 ms 0
Read only 32 26,435 1.11 ms 1.79 ms 2.39 ms 4.35 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 16.9 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 1 335 6,708 2.81 ms 4.1 ms 6.67 ms 0
Read/write 8 579 11,572 14 ms 21.1 ms 26.7 ms 0
Read/write 32 588 11,755 53.9 ms 94.1 ms 121 ms 0
Read only 1 628 10,047 1.61 ms 1.93 ms 2.31 ms 0
Read only 8 1,061 16,970 7.43 ms 9.91 ms 11.2 ms 0
Read only 32 995 15,913 31.9 ms 40.4 ms 44.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 12.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 53,300 48,454 0.719 ms 3.31 ms 5.82 ms
1:1 set:get 53,362 26,681 0.735 ms 3.26 ms 5.38 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 324 1,214 1,695 1.9 s
Express express-postgresjs 4,433 5,964 15,858 116 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 4,282 6,546 17,702 110 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,509 2,852 8,886 152 ms
Nuxt nuxt 3,736 5,566 13,583 394 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,081 2,694 9,773 482 ms
Django django-postgresql 894 1,071 2,259 418 ms
Rails rails 1,458 1,986 7,232 210 ms
Laravel laravel 455 485 893 589 ms
Symfony symfony 600 657 1,745 446 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 1.22 1.3 s 1.41 s 1.45 s 0%
Shop page 1.22 1.76 s 1.91 s 1.96 s 0%
Category page 1.22 1.09 s 1.81 s 1.84 s 0%
Product page 1.22 1.22 s 1.37 s 1.44 s 0%
Product search 1.22 1.05 s 1.15 s 1.18 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.36 4.75 s 5.31 s 5.58 s 0%
Shop page 1.36 6.5 s 7.21 s 7.25 s 0%
Category page 1.34 5.55 s 6.55 s 7.11 s 0%
Product page 0.962 4.76 s 5.09 s 5.2 s 0%
Product search 0.905 4.51 s 4.78 s 4.82 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.24 1.38 s 1.56 s 1.68 s 0%
Cart 2.24 1.12 s 1.29 s 1.35 s 0%
Checkout 2.24 883 ms 1.03 s 1.04 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.36 4.51 s 5.49 s 5.65 s 0%
Cart 2.36 4.93 s 5.28 s 5.46 s 0%
Checkout 2.36 3.85 s 4.35 s 4.4 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 64 to 71 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 1.72 254 ms 347 ms 555 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.87 128 ms 182 ms 240 ms 0%
Home page 0.87 226 ms 266 ms 398 ms 0%
Categories page 0.443 264 ms 371 ms 428 ms 0%
User activity page 0.427 157 ms 192 ms 327 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.22 780 ms 1.06 s 1.83 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.12 400 ms 533 ms 771 ms 0%
Home page 1.08 690 ms 1.24 s 1.47 s 0%
Categories page 0.591 818 ms 997 ms 1.14 s 0%
User activity page 0.542 461 ms 852 ms 1.11 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.11 1.96 s 2.57 s 2.82 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.06 1.58 s 2.02 s 2.29 s 0%
Home page 1.09 1.91 s 2.25 s 2.81 s 0%
Categories page 0.544 1.87 s 2.54 s 3 s 0%
User activity page 0.528 1.62 s 2.13 s 2.21 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 51.9 91.4 ms 196 ms 245 ms 0%
Topic JSON 26 88 ms 194 ms 235 ms 0%
Home page 26 91 ms 195 ms 251 ms 0%
Categories page 13 90.8 ms 201 ms 276 ms 0%
User activity page 13 265 ms 429 ms 628 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 63 s per level, after a 22 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 2,015 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 6.13 48.2 ms 55.3 ms 65.3 ms 0%
Post page 15.3 24.1 ms 29.8 ms 51.1 ms 0%
Tag page 3.06 31 ms 36.2 ms 39.5 ms 0%
Author page 3.05 32.7 ms 37.9 ms 41.4 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.05 38.5 ms 44 ms 48.7 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 6.94 163 ms 195 ms 218 ms 0%
Post page 17.3 102 ms 139 ms 172 ms 0%
Tag page 3.48 97.2 ms 134 ms 147 ms 0%
Author page 3.46 107 ms 137 ms 149 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.46 109 ms 144 ms 168 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 6.94 590 ms 692 ms 742 ms 0%
Post page 17.4 484 ms 592 ms 656 ms 0%
Tag page 3.46 319 ms 403 ms 442 ms 0%
Author page 3.48 321 ms 384 ms 432 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.46 323 ms 405 ms 468 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.32 44 ms 58.3 ms 67.6 ms 0%
Post editor 9.99 18.3 ms 23.7 ms 32 ms 0%
Saving a draft 9.99 42.8 ms 51.7 ms 64.8 ms 0%
Member list 3.32 53.7 ms 70.8 ms 94.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.92 67.5 ms 76.9 ms 91.1 ms 0%
Post editor 11.8 36.7 ms 44.6 ms 53.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.8 243 ms 302 ms 355 ms 0%
Member list 3.92 72.6 ms 84.2 ms 102 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 525 MB and MySQL at 619 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.38 97.8 ms 104 ms 109 ms 0%
Blog index 1.38 333 ms 345 ms 347 ms 0%
Blog post 4.09 30.9 ms 46.5 ms 49.4 ms 0%
Bread page 4.11 34.2 ms 36.9 ms 38.1 ms 0%
Location page 1.38 32.6 ms 35.7 ms 37.2 ms 0%
Site search 1.36 53.2 ms 86 ms 91.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.71 330 ms 412 ms 428 ms 0%
Blog index 1.73 1.13 s 1.35 s 1.46 s 0%
Blog post 5.15 93.4 ms 162 ms 198 ms 0%
Bread page 5.16 101 ms 150 ms 167 ms 0%
Location page 1.74 97.8 ms 142 ms 158 ms 0%
Site search 1.71 159 ms 286 ms 347 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 1.63 1.13 s 1.6 s 1.76 s 0%
Blog index 1.69 2.86 s 3.44 s 3.79 s 0%
Blog post 4.92 633 ms 1.05 s 1.31 s 0%
Bread page 4.92 626 ms 1.01 s 1.18 s 0%
Location page 1.71 607 ms 1.11 s 1.18 s 0%
Site search 1.61 724 ms 1.17 s 1.38 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.541 104 ms 117 ms 130 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.12 425 ms 462 ms 652 ms 0%
Page editor 1.64 198 ms 247 ms 375 ms 0%
Image library 0.541 77.4 ms 144 ms 821 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.541 44.1 ms 93.1 ms 93.9 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.622 331 ms 650 ms 690 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.31 1.54 s 2.05 s 2.09 s 0%
Page editor 1.98 738 ms 1.1 s 1.19 s 0%
Image library 0.655 346 ms 595 ms 662 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.622 135 ms 450 ms 510 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 293 MB, Postgres at 151 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.6% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 25 GB SSD 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
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8280 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2694 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
24.1 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.6% 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
General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line
General Purpose
Location
New York 1
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
25 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$63.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.094
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 16, 2026, 17:46:34 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 16, 2026, 17:45:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 16, 2026, 17:46:00 UTC
Completed
Oct 16, 2026, 19:29:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 16, 2026, 19:29:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.16
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