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RamNode 8GB VDS

Atlanta, GA

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
744
Faster than 11% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,311
Faster than 9% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
4,634
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$50.00
26 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    RamNode
  • Plan
    8GB VDS
  • Location
    Atlanta, GA
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    200 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04 Server Cloud
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 744 1,311 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
1,070
77th of 106
1,513
75th of 90
Navigation
1,294
63rd of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
889
88th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,080
80th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
325
104th of 106
641
88th of 90
Clang
867
91st of 106
1,539
73rd of 90
Text Processing
911
88th of 106
1,758
69th of 90
Asset Compression
890
91st of 106
1,789
71st of 90
HDR
630
100th of 106
1,200
78th of 90
Photo Editor
439
104th of 106
913
84th of 90
Ray Tracer
792
98th of 106
1,698
80th of 90
Structure from Motion
930
90th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
733
100th of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
483
104th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
957
88th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
422
104th of 106
Single-core only

Rank among the 106 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 16.9 GB/s 3 1.62%
Scale higher is better 11.4 GB/s 3 1.54%
Add higher is better 12.4 GB/s 3 1.93%
Triad higher is better 12.4 GB/s 3 1.37%

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 261/s 3 4.79%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 17,249/s 3 1.92%
SHA-256 higher is better 443 MB/s 3 0.897%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 2.35 GB/s 3 1.54%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.92 GB/s 3 0.472%

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 4.55 ms 3 0.352%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 427/s 3 0.811%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 8.94 ms 3 1.56%
Requests per second, average higher is better 414/s 3 0.883%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 9 MB/s (2,313 IOPS) 9.1 MB/s (2,321 IOPS) 18.1 MB/s (4,634 IOPS)
64K 34.5 MB/s (551 IOPS) 34.8 MB/s (557 IOPS) 69.3 MB/s (1,108 IOPS)
512K 46.7 MB/s (93 IOPS) 49.2 MB/s (98 IOPS) 95.9 MB/s (191 IOPS)
1M 58.5 MB/s (58 IOPS) 62.6 MB/s (62 IOPS) 121.1 MB/s (120 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 817 Mbps 167 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 868 Mbps 766 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 544 Mbps 443 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 908 Mbps 194 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 73 Mbps 526 Mbps

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 4,666 0.214 ms
fdatasync 4,716 0.212 ms
fsync 3,242 0.308 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,227 0.31 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,595 0.385 ms
fdatasync 4,387 0.228 ms
fsync 2,688 0.372 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,746 0.573 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,111 0.321 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,518 0.659 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 846 1.18 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 427 2.34 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 214 4.67 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,877 0.348 ms
write, close, fsync 2,601 0.384 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 670,459 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 1,348 0.708 ms 0.939 ms 1.17 ms 3.61 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,000 2.43 ms 4.31 ms 6.24 ms 14.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,017 8.57 ms 23.7 ms 38.6 ms 66.8 ms 0
Read only 1 15,623 0.059 ms 0.087 ms 0.112 ms 0.169 ms 0
Read only 8 30,478 0.245 ms 0.392 ms 0.484 ms 0.832 ms 0
Read only 32 31,637 0.878 ms 1.45 ms 2.05 ms 3.28 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.36 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 1,193 0.764 ms 1.02 ms 1.84 ms 8.98 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,574 2.59 ms 4.38 ms 21.1 ms 38.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,041 9.06 ms 17.8 ms 39.6 ms 80.8 ms 0
Read only 1 10,236 0.078 ms 0.13 ms 0.181 ms 0.65 ms 0
Read only 8 23,265 0.314 ms 0.519 ms 0.676 ms 2.31 ms 0
Read only 32 25,330 1.12 ms 1.94 ms 2.83 ms 4.56 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 21.7 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 1 255 5,109 3.62 ms 5.18 ms 10.5 ms 0
Read/write 8 508 10,167 15.3 ms 25.3 ms 33.1 ms 0
Read/write 32 505 10,104 64.5 ms 103 ms 132 ms 0
Read only 1 605 9,680 1.55 ms 2.15 ms 2.62 ms 0
Read only 8 1,014 16,224 7.57 ms 10.8 ms 13.7 ms 0
Read only 32 956 15,289 33.1 ms 41.9 ms 50.1 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 10.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 42,015 38,195 1.12 ms 3.65 ms 5.41 ms
1:1 set:get 41,715 20,857 1.03 ms 3.65 ms 5.44 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 409 1,352 2,002 1.69 s
Express express-postgresjs 4,968 6,619 16,563 94.3 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 4,806 6,866 16,315 97.7 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,941 3,476 10,353 135 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,229 5,842 11,738 115 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,636 3,185 10,823 675 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,018 1,294 2,571 518 ms
Rails rails 1,540 2,234 8,295 219 ms
Laravel laravel 521 568 1,043 519 ms
Symfony symfony 690 759 2,170 415 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.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.59 1 s 1.18 s 1.21 s 0%
Shop page 1.59 1.37 s 1.57 s 1.65 s 0%
Category page 1.59 845 ms 1.38 s 1.42 s 0%
Product page 1.59 908 ms 1.07 s 1.11 s 0%
Product search 1.59 780 ms 907 ms 1.09 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.8 3.62 s 4.15 s 4.36 s 0%
Shop page 1.8 4.88 s 5.49 s 5.58 s 0%
Category page 1.47 4.31 s 5.05 s 5.39 s 0%
Product page 1.36 3.58 s 3.88 s 3.97 s 0%
Product search 1.36 3.38 s 3.64 s 3.74 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.94 1.06 s 1.26 s 1.36 s 0%
Cart 2.94 857 ms 985 ms 1.1 s 0%
Checkout 2.94 658 ms 760 ms 854 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.07 3.5 s 4.33 s 4.51 s 0%
Cart 3.07 3.74 s 4.14 s 4.31 s 0%
Checkout 3.07 2.96 s 3.39 s 3.55 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.

Discourse

Signed in

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Topic page 1.66 263 ms 329 ms 402 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.839 136 ms 166 ms 193 ms 0%
Home page 0.839 234 ms 425 ms 534 ms 0%
Categories page 0.411 272 ms 328 ms 627 ms 0%
User activity page 0.411 157 ms 202 ms 203 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.48 705 ms 974 ms 1.48 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.26 376 ms 501 ms 521 ms 0%
Home page 1.25 621 ms 990 ms 1.29 s 0%
Categories page 0.639 708 ms 1.03 s 1.64 s 0%
User activity page 0.623 419 ms 633 ms 815 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.1 1.9 s 2.26 s 2.51 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.07 1.52 s 1.87 s 2.05 s 0%
Home page 1.03 1.78 s 2.27 s 2.56 s 0%
Categories page 0.545 2 s 2.25 s 2.28 s 0%
User activity page 0.529 1.56 s 1.86 s 1.89 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 53.7 89.8 ms 180 ms 232 ms 0%
Topic JSON 26.9 88.8 ms 182 ms 253 ms 0%
Home page 26.9 88.6 ms 187 ms 246 ms 0%
Categories page 13.5 92.1 ms 189 ms 248 ms 0%
User activity page 13.4 262 ms 414 ms 522 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 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 2,024 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 5.63 50 ms 59.9 ms 69.2 ms 0%
Post page 14 26.6 ms 32.9 ms 43.9 ms 0%
Tag page 2.81 35.1 ms 43.1 ms 50.6 ms 0%
Author page 2.8 34.9 ms 43 ms 49.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.8 42.5 ms 49.3 ms 54.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 6.61 157 ms 197 ms 224 ms 0%
Post page 16.6 112 ms 153 ms 177 ms 0%
Tag page 3.31 103 ms 137 ms 190 ms 0%
Author page 3.32 101 ms 136 ms 163 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.32 111 ms 154 ms 186 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 6.72 616 ms 719 ms 788 ms 0%
Post page 16.8 493 ms 608 ms 661 ms 0%
Tag page 3.38 345 ms 430 ms 491 ms 0%
Author page 3.39 340 ms 429 ms 473 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.38 343 ms 441 ms 465 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.02 50.3 ms 65 ms 79.4 ms 0%
Post editor 9.08 18.3 ms 26.2 ms 33.3 ms 0%
Saving a draft 9.06 45.1 ms 61.4 ms 74.2 ms 0%
Member list 3.02 66.9 ms 89.3 ms 112 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.55 70.7 ms 86.7 ms 96.6 ms 0%
Post editor 10.7 36.9 ms 48.7 ms 63.2 ms 0%
Saving a draft 10.7 272 ms 354 ms 382 ms 0%
Member list 3.59 86.7 ms 103 ms 121 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 533 MB and MySQL at 622 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.35 98.8 ms 119 ms 127 ms 0%
Blog index 1.35 328 ms 376 ms 408 ms 0%
Blog post 4.01 30.7 ms 48.4 ms 58.2 ms 0%
Bread page 4.03 34 ms 43.4 ms 49.2 ms 0%
Location page 1.35 33 ms 39.2 ms 44.4 ms 0%
Site search 1.33 53.2 ms 91.8 ms 105 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.12 282 ms 358 ms 417 ms 0%
Blog index 2.14 915 ms 1.14 s 1.21 s 0%
Blog post 6.34 75.9 ms 128 ms 154 ms 0%
Bread page 6.37 84.6 ms 124 ms 151 ms 0%
Location page 2.15 81.4 ms 118 ms 161 ms 0%
Site search 2.1 114 ms 232 ms 274 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.03 938 ms 1.17 s 1.37 s 0%
Blog index 2.04 2.34 s 2.87 s 3.08 s 0%
Blog post 6.08 527 ms 795 ms 1.14 s 0%
Bread page 6.08 522 ms 781 ms 963 ms 0%
Location page 2.04 518 ms 762 ms 876 ms 0%
Site search 2.03 614 ms 1.03 s 1.19 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.473 105 ms 136 ms 145 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.963 502 ms 571 ms 657 ms 0%
Page editor 1.42 230 ms 288 ms 394 ms 0%
Image library 0.473 83 ms 96.7 ms 774 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.473 44.5 ms 97.9 ms 107 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.715 352 ms 737 ms 778 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.48 1.39 s 2.08 s 2.43 s 0%
Page editor 2.19 564 ms 947 ms 1.23 s 0%
Image library 0.731 326 ms 519 ms 606 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.715 135 ms 331 ms 355 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 163 MB, and Redis at 46 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 200 GB NVMe 193.7 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 Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, IBRS)
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3400 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
193.7 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-51-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
8GB VDS
Product line
Cloud VDS
Location
Atlanta, GA
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
200 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
10 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$50.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.074
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 12, 2026, 02:06:22 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
Server created
Oct 12, 2026, 02:12:20 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 02:12:20 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 03:59:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 03:59:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.13
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