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OVHcloud B2-7

Beauharnois

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 17, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
925
Faster than 26% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,710
Faster than 26% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
20,057
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$29.71
58 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    OVHcloud
  • Plan
    B2-7
  • Location
    Beauharnois
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    7 GB
  • Storage
    50 GB SSD
  • Network
    250 Mbps
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 17, 2026, 09:48:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 925 1,710 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
930
192nd of 241
1,476
132nd of 166
Navigation
1,220
143rd of 241
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
884
177th of 241
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
981
183rd of 241
Single-core only
Photo Library
699
188th of 241
1,412
132nd of 166
Clang
885
181st of 241
1,750
126th of 166
Text Processing
973
160th of 241
1,855
116th of 166
Asset Compression
947
180th of 241
1,834
130th of 166
HDR
841
173rd of 241
1,528
130th of 166
Photo Editor
909
177th of 241
1,798
119th of 166
Ray Tracer
1,092
140th of 241
2,142
116th of 166
Structure from Motion
1,096
168th of 241
Single-core only
Game Physics
940
178th of 241
Single-core only
Video Encoder
817
184th of 241
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
858
197th of 241
Single-core only
Video Player
843
183rd of 241
Single-core only

Rank among the 241 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 38.1 GB/s 3 1.67%
Scale higher is better 21.4 GB/s 3 0.72%
Add higher is better 23 GB/s 3 0.648%
Triad higher is better 23.2 GB/s 3 0.665%

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 257/s 3 0.362%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 16,907/s 3 0.293%
SHA-256 higher is better 452 MB/s 3 1.14%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 4.16 GB/s 3 0.73%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.72 GB/s 3 6.01%

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 4.57 ms 3 0.35%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 432/s 3 0.354%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 8.75 ms 3 2.28%
Requests per second, average higher is better 427/s 3 0.403%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 39.1 MB/s (10,016 IOPS) 39.2 MB/s (10,041 IOPS) 78.3 MB/s (20,057 IOPS)
64K 642.9 MB/s (10,287 IOPS) 646.3 MB/s (10,341 IOPS) 1.26 GB/s (20,628 IOPS)
512K 943.7 MB/s (1,887 IOPS) 993.8 MB/s (1,987 IOPS) 1.89 GB/s (3,874 IOPS)
1M 959.8 MB/s (959 IOPS) 1023.7 MB/s (1,023 IOPS) 1.94 GB/s (1,982 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 234 Mbps 238 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 235 Mbps 231 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 200 Mbps 190 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 161 Mbps 239 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 244 Mbps 244 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 7,219 0.139 ms
fdatasync 6,845 0.146 ms
fsync 4,834 0.207 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 5,040 0.198 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 3,669 0.273 ms
fdatasync 6,858 0.146 ms
fsync 4,844 0.206 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,755 0.363 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 5,062 0.198 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,572 0.389 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,417 0.706 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 737 1.36 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 406 2.47 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 4,739 0.211 ms
write, close, fsync 4,317 0.232 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 773,801 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 1,771 0.546 ms 0.663 ms 0.828 ms 2.07 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,359 2.23 ms 3.66 ms 4.8 ms 6.98 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,333 7.9 ms 20.3 ms 32.8 ms 60.5 ms 0
Read only 1 17,875 0.053 ms 0.075 ms 0.093 ms 0.134 ms 0
Read only 8 31,200 0.233 ms 0.385 ms 0.52 ms 1.78 ms 0
Read only 32 35,156 0.823 ms 1.25 ms 1.64 ms 2.97 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.49 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 1,499 0.625 ms 0.777 ms 1.48 ms 5.24 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,057 2.36 ms 3.48 ms 10.2 ms 16.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,593 8.44 ms 13.3 ms 18.3 ms 31.2 ms 0
Read only 1 12,600 0.072 ms 0.108 ms 0.138 ms 0.563 ms 0
Read only 8 22,837 0.332 ms 0.527 ms 0.65 ms 1.58 ms 0
Read only 32 24,943 1.19 ms 1.88 ms 2.38 ms 3.97 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 15.3 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 1 298 5,950 3.19 ms 4.25 ms 6.91 ms 0
Read/write 8 587 11,740 13.7 ms 20 ms 24.8 ms 0
Read/write 32 621 12,426 51 ms 87.6 ms 111 ms 0
Read only 1 651 10,413 1.5 ms 1.82 ms 2.15 ms 0
Read only 8 1,119 17,905 6.91 ms 9.22 ms 10.3 ms 0
Read only 32 1,040 16,645 30.8 ms 37.6 ms 41.1 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 9.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 60,095 54,632 0.839 ms 2.72 ms 4.54 ms
1:1 set:get 59,983 29,991 0.663 ms 2.77 ms 4.67 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 429 1,332 1,908 1.22 s
Express express-postgresjs 5,408 7,479 17,127 453 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,778 8,228 15,819 78 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,841 3,067 9,268 160 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,837 6,762 14,175 456 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,443 2,966 11,749 588 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,057 1,189 2,405 292 ms
Rails rails 1,565 2,215 7,608 188 ms
Laravel laravel 580 622 1,098 469 ms
Symfony symfony 714 767 2,023 386 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 1.7 925 ms 1.05 s 1.06 s 0%
Shop page 1.7 1.26 s 1.36 s 1.41 s 0%
Category page 1.7 787 ms 1.28 s 1.34 s 0%
Product page 1.7 857 ms 975 ms 993 ms 0%
Product search 1.7 735 ms 850 ms 912 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.81 3.37 s 3.82 s 3.94 s 0%
Shop page 1.81 4.54 s 5.15 s 5.33 s 0%
Category page 1.81 3.92 s 4.68 s 4.86 s 0%
Product page 1.64 3.38 s 3.76 s 3.91 s 0%
Product search 1.36 3.1 s 3.32 s 3.45 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.26 972 ms 1.09 s 1.11 s 0%
Cart 3.26 788 ms 902 ms 932 ms 0%
Checkout 3.26 621 ms 712 ms 742 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.32 3.24 s 3.95 s 4.09 s 0%
Cart 3.32 3.49 s 3.82 s 3.92 s 0%
Checkout 3.32 2.73 s 3.09 s 3.15 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 1.77 247 ms 277 ms 509 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.887 128 ms 152 ms 245 ms 0%
Home page 0.887 223 ms 322 ms 507 ms 0%
Categories page 0.444 257 ms 271 ms 277 ms 0%
User activity page 0.444 152 ms 226 ms 336 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 3.18 555 ms 723 ms 1.22 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.59 293 ms 365 ms 400 ms 0%
Home page 1.59 512 ms 615 ms 745 ms 0%
Categories page 0.804 571 ms 742 ms 1.09 s 0%
User activity page 0.788 350 ms 470 ms 851 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.86 1.7 s 2.2 s 2.5 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.44 1.42 s 1.7 s 1.82 s 0%
Home page 1.42 1.66 s 1.99 s 2.12 s 0%
Categories page 0.743 1.72 s 1.95 s 2.01 s 0%
User activity page 0.727 1.44 s 1.76 s 1.82 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 72.3 63.4 ms 143 ms 169 ms 0%
Topic JSON 36.2 64 ms 144 ms 172 ms 0%
Home page 36.2 62.2 ms 145 ms 172 ms 0%
Categories page 18.1 66.9 ms 152 ms 192 ms 0%
User activity page 18.1 192 ms 282 ms 418 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 1792 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 7 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,161 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 6.16 49.2 ms 55.9 ms 64.5 ms 0%
Post page 15.4 23.4 ms 27.9 ms 32.1 ms 0%
Tag page 3.08 31.8 ms 36.3 ms 62.6 ms 0%
Author page 3.06 33 ms 37.4 ms 45.4 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.06 39.5 ms 43.8 ms 49.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 7.32 152 ms 185 ms 205 ms 0%
Post page 18.3 99.1 ms 135 ms 153 ms 0%
Tag page 3.68 88.8 ms 127 ms 135 ms 0%
Author page 3.66 94.8 ms 130 ms 158 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.64 99.5 ms 132 ms 140 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.13 565 ms 671 ms 730 ms 0%
Post page 17.9 473 ms 568 ms 619 ms 0%
Tag page 3.57 306 ms 383 ms 416 ms 0%
Author page 3.57 310 ms 381 ms 412 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.53 317 ms 394 ms 431 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.3 45.8 ms 59.7 ms 88.4 ms 0%
Post editor 9.93 17.2 ms 22.9 ms 27.9 ms 0%
Saving a draft 9.93 41.4 ms 52.5 ms 60.4 ms 0%
Member list 3.3 60.2 ms 80.3 ms 109 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.05 63.7 ms 72.9 ms 82.4 ms 0%
Post editor 12.2 32.7 ms 40.2 ms 48.8 ms 0%
Saving a draft 12.2 245 ms 296 ms 326 ms 0%
Member list 4.08 78.4 ms 89.3 ms 97 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 588 MB and MySQL at 621 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.33 100 ms 108 ms 111 ms 0%
Blog index 1.33 353 ms 371 ms 384 ms 0%
Blog post 3.95 31 ms 47.4 ms 52 ms 0%
Bread page 3.97 34.5 ms 38.4 ms 40.1 ms 0%
Location page 1.33 32.7 ms 36.6 ms 38.9 ms 0%
Site search 1.31 51.9 ms 89.1 ms 92 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.18 252 ms 327 ms 358 ms 0%
Blog index 2.2 909 ms 1.14 s 1.28 s 0%
Blog post 6.53 73.9 ms 125 ms 160 ms 0%
Bread page 6.56 81.8 ms 111 ms 123 ms 0%
Location page 2.21 79.9 ms 115 ms 139 ms 0%
Site search 2.16 117 ms 241 ms 264 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.09 866 ms 1.11 s 1.2 s 0%
Blog index 2.16 2.31 s 2.6 s 2.76 s 0%
Blog post 6.24 487 ms 789 ms 896 ms 0%
Bread page 6.32 500 ms 819 ms 946 ms 0%
Location page 2.16 498 ms 742 ms 827 ms 0%
Site search 2.03 658 ms 892 ms 991 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.489 107 ms 125 ms 136 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.01 480 ms 646 ms 760 ms 0%
Page editor 1.48 214 ms 265 ms 303 ms 0%
Image library 0.489 83.4 ms 149 ms 824 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.489 44.5 ms 99.3 ms 106 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.779 317 ms 641 ms 686 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.59 1.25 s 1.98 s 2.06 s 0%
Page editor 2.35 558 ms 953 ms 1.05 s 0%
Image library 0.795 268 ms 510 ms 585 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.779 96.9 ms 277 ms 303 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 295 MB, Postgres at 151 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 7 GB 6.6 GiB
Storage 50 GB SSD 48.4 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 (Haswell, no TSX)
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2295 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
6.6 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
48.4 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-136-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
B2-7
Product line
General Purpose B2
Location
Beauharnois
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
7 GB
Storage
50 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
250 Mbps
Transfer
Unmetered
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$29.71
Hourly price at test time
$0.084
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 17, 2026, 09:49:46 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 17, 2026, 09:48:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 17, 2026, 09:49:39 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 17, 2026, 09:49:39 UTC
Completed
Oct 17, 2026, 11:31:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 17, 2026, 11:31:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.14
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