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K.N Lite 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Miami

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 10, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
24,574
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$4.99
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    K.N
  • Plan
    Lite 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    Miami
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    20 GB SSD
  • Network
    1 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 10, 2026, 21:20:00 UTC

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.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 8.38 GB/s 3 0.865%
Scale higher is better 9.67 GB/s 3 1.16%
Add higher is better 10.4 GB/s 3 0.539%
Triad higher is better 10.5 GB/s 3 0.574%

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 104/s 3 1.02%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 7,070/s 3 0.132%
SHA-256 higher is better 122 MB/s 3 3%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 1.73 GB/s 3 1.63%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 946 MB/s 3 12.3%

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 6.88 ms 3 0.672%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 119/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 31.9 ms 3 3.96%
Requests per second, average higher is better 118/s 3 0.338%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 47.9 MB/s (12,275 IOPS) 48 MB/s (12,299 IOPS) 96 MB/s (24,574 IOPS)
64K 353.2 MB/s (5,651 IOPS) 355.1 MB/s (5,681 IOPS) 708.3 MB/s (11,332 IOPS)
512K 553.2 MB/s (1,106 IOPS) 582.6 MB/s (1,165 IOPS) 1.11 GB/s (2,271 IOPS)
1M 527.5 MB/s (527 IOPS) 562.7 MB/s (562 IOPS) 1.06 GB/s (1,089 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 508 Mbps 887 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 488 Mbps 741 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 231 Mbps 218 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 708 Mbps 932 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 773 Mbps 947 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 3,043 0.329 ms
fdatasync 2,175 0.46 ms
fsync 1,003 0.997 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,173 0.852 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,515 0.66 ms
fdatasync 2,072 0.483 ms
fsync 982 1.02 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 527 1.9 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 986 1.01 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 575 1.74 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 287 3.49 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 144 6.96 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 73.7 13.6 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,047 0.955 ms
write, close, fsync 1,022 0.978 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 486,204 0.002 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) 1 822 0.961 ms 2.13 ms 6.97 ms 15.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 879 5.84 ms 37.1 ms 44.6 ms 52 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 596 44 ms 131 ms 191 ms 301 ms 0
Read only 1 14,153 0.049 ms 0.081 ms 0.131 ms 1.37 ms 0
Read only 8 11,691 0.379 ms 1.25 ms 3.33 ms 24.3 ms 0
Read only 32 7,939 1.96 ms 10.6 ms 26.6 ms 69.8 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 4.5 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) 1 508 1.7 ms 3.63 ms 8.46 ms 16.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 607 8.16 ms 44.9 ms 56 ms 68.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 576 49.3 ms 102 ms 207 ms 345 ms 0
Read only 1 1,547 0.554 ms 1.37 ms 2.36 ms 6.28 ms 0
Read only 8 2,355 1.83 ms 6.32 ms 42 ms 48.6 ms 0
Read only 32 2,276 6.84 ms 49.9 ms 67.9 ms 252 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 47.2 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 1 100 2,003 7.17 ms 28.7 ms 49.2 ms 0
Read/write 8 137 2,730 60 ms 103 ms 159 ms 0
Read/write 32 167 3,341 180 ms 332 ms 467 ms 0
Read only 1 373 5,962 2.03 ms 3.96 ms 22.3 ms 0
Read only 8 332 5,308 18.6 ms 44.2 ms 148 ms 0
Read only 32 320 5,128 90.8 ms 174 ms 476 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 42.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 16,081 14,619 3.01 ms 26.2 ms 35.6 ms
1:1 set:get 15,775 7,887 3.15 ms 25.7 ms 31 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 1 thread, 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 67.5 239 363 7.36 s
Express express-postgresjs 2,683 2,690 4,967 3.64 s
Fastify fastify-postgres 2,681 3,345 5,826 3.34 s
NestJS nestjs 637 668 3,135 1.14 s
Nuxt nuxt 1,848 2,578 5,011 5.22 s
FastAPI fastapi 488 637 3,028 1.56 s
Django django-postgresql 250 279 702 1.18 s
Rails rails 430 596 2,608 687 ms
Laravel laravel 112 120 194 2.37 s
Symfony symfony 142 153 404 1.92 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.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Failed: k6 summary at 32 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step search

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 0.687 3.89 s 4.76 s 4.86 s 0%
Cart 0.687 4.11 s 4.6 s 4.66 s 0%
Checkout 0.687 3.22 s 3.63 s 3.7 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 0.893 13.6 s 18.4 s 18.6 s 0%
Cart 0.628 17.2 s 18.2 s 18.5 s 0%
Checkout 0.447 13.1 s 14.9 s 15.1 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 70 to 72 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Spec Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 54.6% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 961 MiB
Storage 20 GB SSD 19.3 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) Gold 5218 CPU @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
2300 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
961 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
19.3 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
54.6% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-117-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
Lite 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Cloud Instances
Location
Miami
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
20 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
1 Gbps
Transfer
2 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$4.99
Hourly price at test time
$0.0068
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 10, 2026, 21:24:23 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 10, 2026, 21:20:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 10, 2026, 21:21:10 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 10, 2026, 21:21:10 UTC
Completed
Oct 10, 2026, 22:42:04 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 10, 2026, 22:42:04 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.0094
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