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DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB

San Francisco 3

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 27, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
61,247
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 57,411 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    San Francisco 3
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB NVMe
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 25, 2026, 17:05:00 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.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 119.5 MB/s (30,583 IOPS) 119.8 MB/s (30,664 IOPS) 239.3 MB/s (61,247 IOPS)
64K 686.6 MB/s (10,985 IOPS) 690.2 MB/s (11,043 IOPS) 1.34 GB/s (22,028 IOPS)
512K 325.2 MB/s (650 IOPS) 342.5 MB/s (684 IOPS) 667.6 MB/s (1,334 IOPS)
1M 233.2 MB/s (233 IOPS) 248.7 MB/s (248 IOPS) 481.9 MB/s (481 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, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 2 Gbps 1.87 Gbps
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 1.21 Gbps 1.27 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.19 Gbps 1.01 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Failed

Durable transfers and indexed account lookups against a fixed relational dataset.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 50 ms · p99 ≤ 100 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

PostgreSQL large dataset

Insufficient RAM

The same transaction mix against ten million accounts; the dataset never shrinks to fit a plan.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 100 ms · p99 ≤ 250 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis cache

Measured

A mixed cache workload with 1 KiB values, expiration, misses and eviction.

RepeatOffered / soperations/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
1100010001.79 / 2.020 / 0Met workload limits
150004999.971.84 / 2.110 / 0Met workload limits
1100009996.731.24 / 2.370 / 582Met workload limits
12500022327.2615.88 / 22.440 / 480938load generator saturated
2100010001.81 / 2.020 / 0Met workload limits
250004999.971.81 / 2.080 / 0Met workload limits
2100009999.31.22 / 2.140 / 122Met workload limits
22500023261.4314.58 / 20.220 / 312574load generator saturated

p95 ≤ 10 ms · p99 ≤ 25 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis persistent queue

Measured

Enqueue, consume and acknowledge payloads with append-only persistence.

RepeatOffered / sjobs/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001004.27 / 4.940 / 0Met workload limits
15005003.19 / 3.720 / 0Met workload limits
1100010003.23 / 3.910 / 0Met workload limits
130002999.993.91 / 8.290 / 0Met workload limits
21001004.27 / 50 / 0Met workload limits
25005003.23 / 3.720 / 0Met workload limits
2100010003.19 / 3.870 / 0Met workload limits
230002999.377.33 / 37.930 / 110Met workload limits

p95 ≤ 20 ms · p99 ≤ 50 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Discourse community

Insufficient RAM

Signed-in reading, search, posting and replies in a populated Rails forum.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 1500 ms · p99 ≤ 3000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n workflows

Insufficient RAM

Webhook, transformation, branching and a verified final response.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n queue workers

Insufficient RAM

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Ghost publishing

Insufficient RAM

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Formbricks / Next.js

Insufficient RAM

Public survey rendering, persisted responses and authenticated analysis.

Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

GitHub self-hosted runner

Insufficient RAM

A pinned build and test workflow with separate cold and warm dependency caches.

Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 3600000 ms · p99 ≤ 3600000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Odoo Community sales

Insufficient RAM

Customer lookup, sales order confirmation, stock operations and reporting.

Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 0.3% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 961 MiB
Storage 25 GB NVMe 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
DO-Premium-AMD
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
1996 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
961 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
24.1 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.3% 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
Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Basic AMD
Location
San Francisco 3
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
25 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
1 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.010
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 27, 2026, 01:47:11 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 25, 2026, 17:05:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 27, 2026, 01:44:21 UTC
Completed
Oct 27, 2026, 02:59:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 27, 2026, 02:59:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.013
TestResultTime
PostgreSQL large dataset Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Discourse community Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
n8n workflows Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
n8n queue workers Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Ghost publishing Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 2048 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Formbricks / Next.js Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Elasticsearch search and ingestion Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
GitHub self-hosted runner Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
Odoo Community sales Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected. Not run Requires 4096 MiB RAM; plan has 1024 MiB, 961 MiB detected.
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