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LunaNode m.8 4 vCPU / 8 GB

Toronto

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 14, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
867
Faster than 6% of 4 vCPU plans
Median here: 895 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,754
Faster than 29% of 4 vCPU plans
Median here: 2,798 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
95,359
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 93,199 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$28.00
98 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    LunaNode
  • Plan
    m.8 4 vCPU / 8 GB
  • Location
    Toronto
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    70 GB SSD
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04 64-bit (template)
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 14, 2026, 19:44:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 867 2,754 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
982
130th of 171
2,392
71st of 124
Navigation
1,072
125th of 171
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
850
132nd of 171
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
968
132nd of 171
Single-core only
Photo Library
691
136th of 171
2,325
65th of 124
Clang
921
123rd of 171
3,547
46th of 124
Text Processing
989
107th of 171
3,483
42nd of 124
Asset Compression
1,042
114th of 171
4,140
42nd of 124
HDR
785
132nd of 171
2,323
65th of 124
Photo Editor
556
158th of 171
1,220
109th of 124
Ray Tracer
986
115th of 171
4,105
43rd of 124
Structure from Motion
848
144th of 171
Single-core only
Game Physics
965
122nd of 171
Single-core only
Video Encoder
778
136th of 171
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
900
138th of 171
Single-core only
Video Player
732
139th of 171
Single-core only

Rank among the 171 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 47.9 GB/s 3 1.18%
Scale higher is better 29.8 GB/s 3 0.345%
Add higher is better 31.3 GB/s 3 1.3%
Triad higher is better 31.6 GB/s 3 1.05%

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 880/s 3 1.54%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 58,085/s 3 1.59%
SHA-256 higher is better 984 MB/s 3 1.28%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 11 GB/s 3 0.99%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.94 GB/s 3 0.0908%

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 4.08 ms 3 0.113%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 923/s 3 0.433%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 13.5 ms 3 4.5%
Requests per second, average higher is better 894/s 3 0.576%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 186 MB/s (47,617 IOPS) 186.5 MB/s (47,742 IOPS) 372.5 MB/s (95,359 IOPS)
64K 1.6 GB/s (26,292 IOPS) 1.61 GB/s (26,431 IOPS) 3.22 GB/s (52,723 IOPS)
512K 1.55 GB/s (3,184 IOPS) 1.64 GB/s (3,353 IOPS) 3.19 GB/s (6,537 IOPS)
1M 1.57 GB/s (1,607 IOPS) 1.67 GB/s (1,714 IOPS) 3.24 GB/s (3,321 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

iperf3 didn't report network results for this run.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 3,930 0.254 ms
fdatasync 4,013 0.249 ms
fsync 2,386 0.419 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,788 0.359 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,066 0.484 ms
fdatasync 3,419 0.293 ms
fsync 2,197 0.455 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,409 0.71 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,422 0.413 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,191 0.84 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 725 1.38 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 330 3.03 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 186 5.37 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,272 0.44 ms
write, close, fsync 1,927 0.519 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 309,857 0.003 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) 1 962 0.909 ms 1.3 ms 2.16 ms 48 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,643 1.93 ms 3.73 ms 5.59 ms 15.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,241 5.77 ms 18 ms 30.8 ms 75.5 ms 0
Read only 1 14,582 0.063 ms 0.09 ms 0.111 ms 0.158 ms 0
Read only 8 50,108 0.147 ms 0.256 ms 0.317 ms 0.494 ms 0
Read only 32 54,916 0.517 ms 0.824 ms 1.11 ms 1.89 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.51 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) 1 853 1.06 ms 1.74 ms 2.54 ms 7.89 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,149 2.27 ms 3.99 ms 7.71 ms 26 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,539 6.14 ms 11.7 ms 20.1 ms 89.8 ms 0
Read only 1 9,790 0.095 ms 0.143 ms 0.189 ms 0.476 ms 0
Read only 8 39,521 0.185 ms 0.337 ms 0.435 ms 1.24 ms 0
Read only 32 43,170 0.668 ms 1.09 ms 1.5 ms 3.1 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 29.6 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 1 203 4,064 4.41 ms 7.99 ms 12.5 ms 0
Read/write 8 778 15,563 9.22 ms 16.7 ms 23.9 ms 0
Read/write 32 916 18,319 31.9 ms 64.5 ms 84.5 ms 0
Read only 1 544 8,703 1.73 ms 2.31 ms 3.02 ms 0
Read only 8 1,904 30,464 4.1 ms 6.1 ms 7.57 ms 0
Read only 32 1,754 28,070 18.3 ms 24.4 ms 28.7 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 7.7 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 43,747 39,770 1.4 ms 2.56 ms 3.79 ms
1:1 set:get 43,807 21,903 1.4 ms 2.56 ms 4.02 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 576 2,682 3,645 3.49 s
Express express-postgresjs 2,461 2,539 5,306 300 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 2,230 2,901 5,939 315 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,489 6,584 22,290 86.7 ms
Nuxt nuxt 9,766 13,495 28,455 73 ms
FastAPI fastapi 739 886 3,186 2 s
Django django-postgresql 317 374 744 1.8 s
Rails rails 567 646 2,219 1.1 s
Laravel laravel 1,024 1,078 2,069 276 ms
Symfony symfony 215 1,392 3,788 1.41 s

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 0.529 3.1 s 3.71 s 3.91 s 0%
Shop page 0.529 3.8 s 4.81 s 5.53 s 0%
Category page 0.529 2.51 s 3.83 s 5.07 s 0%
Product page 0.529 2.61 s 3.92 s 4.16 s 0%
Product search 0.529 2.21 s 2.83 s 3.37 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 0.728 10.5 s 13.2 s 13.7 s 0%
Shop page 0.448 14.9 s 17.9 s 18.4 s 0%
Category page 0.448 12.2 s 14.8 s 15.8 s 0%
Product page 0.448 10.5 s 12.3 s 12.5 s 0%
Product search 0.448 9.9 s 12.1 s 12.8 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 0.987 3.15 s 4.08 s 4.44 s 0%
Cart 0.987 2.51 s 3.5 s 3.96 s 0%
Checkout 0.987 1.9 s 2.57 s 2.84 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 1.06 10.3 s 13.9 s 16.2 s 0%
Cart 0.909 11.1 s 13.5 s 13.6 s 0%
Checkout 0.895 8.8 s 11.1 s 12 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 67 to 72 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 1.54 290 ms 340 ms 493 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.788 145 ms 185 ms 233 ms 0%
Home page 0.788 257 ms 293 ms 432 ms 0%
Categories page 0.394 288 ms 335 ms 338 ms 0%
User activity page 0.378 183 ms 207 ms 410 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 3.73 301 ms 2.11 s 2.49 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.87 154 ms 1.02 s 1.3 s 0%
Home page 1.86 280 ms 1.89 s 2.4 s 0%
Categories page 0.962 314 ms 2.11 s 2.98 s 0%
User activity page 0.929 183 ms 1.43 s 1.59 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 0.495 7.15 s 20.2 s 22.3 s 0%
Topic JSON 0.248 4.45 s 7.65 s 8.25 s 0%
Home page 0.217 6.26 s 11.1 s 11.9 s 0%
Categories page 0.139 8.01 s 12.2 s 12.8 s 0%
User activity page 0.139 4.82 s 8.16 s 9.31 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 12.3 303 ms 709 ms 1.05 s 0.932%
Topic JSON 6.21 300 ms 784 ms 995 ms 0.789%
Home page 6.19 306 ms 722 ms 1.13 s 0.264%
Categories page 3.12 300 ms 862 ms 4.24 s 1.57%
User activity page 3.1 1.49 s 2.8 s 3.43 s 0.526%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 65 s per level, after a 22 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 2,614 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 4.39 53.2 ms 122 ms 183 ms 0%
Post page 11 28.2 ms 84 ms 110 ms 0%
Tag page 2.19 35.5 ms 92.9 ms 118 ms 0%
Author page 2.19 34.7 ms 87.5 ms 142 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.19 43 ms 102 ms 173 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 6.98 150 ms 193 ms 226 ms 0%
Post page 17.5 107 ms 145 ms 173 ms 0%
Tag page 3.51 93.1 ms 128 ms 134 ms 0%
Author page 3.51 95.4 ms 126 ms 142 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.49 104 ms 141 ms 161 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.21 598 ms 686 ms 704 ms 0%
Post page 18 438 ms 577 ms 613 ms 0%
Tag page 3.63 346 ms 425 ms 454 ms 0%
Author page 3.6 351 ms 429 ms 456 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.58 337 ms 416 ms 447 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 2.87 50.2 ms 70.4 ms 97.6 ms 0%
Post editor 8.66 19.3 ms 28.5 ms 33.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 8.65 49 ms 68.2 ms 77.2 ms 0%
Member list 2.89 64.5 ms 96.7 ms 108 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.81 67.2 ms 82.9 ms 96.3 ms 0%
Post editor 11.5 33.4 ms 47.3 ms 55.7 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.5 263 ms 336 ms 361 ms 0%
Member list 3.85 77.8 ms 98.5 ms 114 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 512 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.13 113 ms 145 ms 159 ms 0%
Blog index 1.13 397 ms 472 ms 523 ms 0%
Blog post 3.38 35.1 ms 55.6 ms 64.8 ms 0%
Bread page 3.39 39.7 ms 56.5 ms 65.9 ms 0%
Location page 1.13 37.4 ms 56.8 ms 62.6 ms 0%
Site search 1.13 63.7 ms 123 ms 136 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.16 269 ms 406 ms 445 ms 0%
Blog index 2.21 968 ms 1.26 s 1.32 s 0%
Blog post 6.5 66.5 ms 132 ms 157 ms 0%
Bread page 6.55 76.6 ms 126 ms 139 ms 0%
Location page 2.21 73 ms 117 ms 143 ms 0%
Site search 2.16 106 ms 245 ms 275 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.3 780 ms 1.02 s 1.24 s 0%
Blog index 2.36 2.17 s 2.56 s 2.76 s 0%
Blog post 6.94 440 ms 688 ms 821 ms 0%
Bread page 6.96 461 ms 722 ms 988 ms 0%
Location page 2.36 449 ms 724 ms 861 ms 0%
Site search 2.28 526 ms 795 ms 827 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.41 129 ms 179 ms 258 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.836 547 ms 683 ms 865 ms 0%
Page editor 1.25 269 ms 356 ms 494 ms 0%
Image library 0.41 92 ms 141 ms 922 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.41 63.9 ms 111 ms 212 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.595 446 ms 821 ms 895 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.24 1.34 s 3.7 s 4.53 s 0%
Page editor 1.83 709 ms 1.18 s 1.3 s 0%
Image library 0.595 351 ms 821 ms 846 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.595 146 ms 470 ms 673 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 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 294 MB, Postgres at 151 MB, and Redis at 18 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Shared vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 70 GB SSD 67.7 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 Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2600 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
2 GiB
Disk reported
67.7 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-106-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
m.8 4 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line
Memory-Optimized
Location
Toronto
vCPU
4 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
70 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
3 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$28.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.039
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 14, 2026, 19:48:10 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 14, 2026, 19:44:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 14, 2026, 19:48:01 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 14, 2026, 19:48:01 UTC
Completed
Oct 14, 2026, 21:43:27 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 14, 2026, 21:43:27 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.077
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