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Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 4 (Gen 2)

Chicago, US

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
757
Faster than 22% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 757 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
9,992
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 9,963 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$10.53
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Cherry Servers
  • Plan
    Cloud VPS 4 (Gen 2)
  • Location
    Chicago, US
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    1 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu_24_04_64bit
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 01:24:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 757 Skipped Geekbench Browser

Multi-core was skipped because Geekbench 7 needs about 4.2 GB of free memory to run 4 threads, and this server didn't have that much. Single-core needs much less, so it still ran.

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
888
112th of 129
Single-core only
Navigation
780
124th of 129
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
673
118th of 129
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
812
117th of 129
Single-core only
Photo Library
708
103rd of 129
Single-core only
Clang
646
121st of 129
Single-core only
Text Processing
706
114th of 129
Single-core only
Asset Compression
791
114th of 129
Single-core only
HDR
766
109th of 129
Single-core only
Photo Editor
649
113th of 129
Single-core only
Ray Tracer
778
116th of 129
Single-core only
Structure from Motion
813
119th of 129
Single-core only
Game Physics
730
118th of 129
Single-core only
Video Encoder
750
110th of 129
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
857
112th of 129
Single-core only
Video Player
816
103rd of 129
Single-core only

Rank among the 129 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 76 GB/s 3 17.6%
Scale higher is better 43.3 GB/s 3 15.8%
Add higher is better 51.5 GB/s 3 16.7%
Triad higher is better 51 GB/s 3 16.3%

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 513/s 3 1.25%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 32,006/s 3 0.302%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.81 GB/s 3 0.45%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 8.47 GB/s 3 0.336%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.88 GB/s 3 0.438%

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 5.35 ms 3 0.173%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 492/s 3 0.822%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 337 ms 3 0.351%
Requests per second, average higher is better 485/s 3 0.0928%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 19.5 MB/s (4,995 IOPS) 19.5 MB/s (4,997 IOPS) 39 MB/s (9,992 IOPS)
64K 200.9 MB/s (3,214 IOPS) 201.9 MB/s (3,231 IOPS) 402.8 MB/s (6,445 IOPS)
512K 191.8 MB/s (383 IOPS) 201.9 MB/s (403 IOPS) 393.7 MB/s (786 IOPS)
1M 189.9 MB/s (189 IOPS) 202.6 MB/s (202 IOPS) 392.5 MB/s (391 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 3,801 0.263 ms
fdatasync 3,376 0.296 ms
fsync 2,330 0.429 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,527 0.396 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,821 0.549 ms
fdatasync 3,190 0.314 ms
fsync 2,373 0.421 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,190 0.841 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,179 0.459 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,334 0.75 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 687 1.46 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 316 3.17 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 154 6.48 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,088 0.479 ms
write, close, fsync 2,492 0.401 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 353,449 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 1,073 0.64 ms 0.788 ms 1.04 ms 311 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,453 1.41 ms 2.58 ms 3.91 ms 335 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,687 4.48 ms 14.6 ms 40.9 ms 355 ms 0
Read only 1 12,184 0.052 ms 0.077 ms 0.093 ms 0.132 ms 0
Read only 8 46,436 0.1 ms 0.197 ms 0.253 ms 0.523 ms 0
Read only 32 47,113 0.364 ms 0.689 ms 1.08 ms 6.12 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.68 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 1,015 0.68 ms 0.899 ms 1.28 ms 20.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,876 1.62 ms 3.97 ms 15.7 ms 326 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,904 4.7 ms 16.8 ms 39.9 ms 343 ms 0
Read only 1 9,363 0.064 ms 0.119 ms 0.22 ms 1.11 ms 0
Read only 8 35,354 0.131 ms 0.258 ms 0.343 ms 1.26 ms 0
Read only 32 36,857 0.489 ms 0.895 ms 1.49 ms 10.8 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 26.6 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

Failed: sysbench prepare output didn't parse: sysbench prepare did not fill every table it created

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 37,986 34,532 1.06 ms 2.19 ms 346 ms
1:1 set:get 36,808 18,404 1.09 ms 2.21 ms 346 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 668 2,431 3,576 755 ms
Express express-postgresjs 10,455 13,516 33,194 363 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 10,547 14,441 36,459 362 ms
NestJS nestjs 4,939 5,547 18,491 391 ms
Nuxt nuxt 8,511 12,357 31,785 365 ms
FastAPI fastapi 3,661 4,529 18,251 513 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,487 1,611 3,449 503 ms
Rails rails 2,569 3,365 12,633 383 ms
Laravel laravel 843 895 1,671 560 ms
Symfony symfony 1,079 1,184 3,164 511 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 2.48 697 ms 909 ms 970 ms 0%
Shop page 2.48 882 ms 1.06 s 1.13 s 0%
Category page 2.48 648 ms 1.01 s 1.12 s 0%
Product page 2.48 674 ms 878 ms 937 ms 0%
Product search 2.48 551 ms 788 ms 883 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.43 2.37 s 2.98 s 3.16 s 0%
Shop page 2.43 3.23 s 4 s 4.23 s 0%
Category page 2.43 2.62 s 3.43 s 4 s 0%
Product page 2.43 2.4 s 2.94 s 3.09 s 0%
Product search 2.43 2.17 s 2.78 s 2.89 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.81 723 ms 931 ms 972 ms 0%
Cart 4.81 594 ms 847 ms 883 ms 0%
Checkout 4.81 364 ms 733 ms 793 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 4.66 2.52 s 3.08 s 3.48 s 0%
Cart 4.66 2.3 s 2.89 s 3.12 s 0%
Checkout 4.66 1.98 s 2.37 s 2.7 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 66 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 1.76 228 ms 446 ms 560 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.895 118 ms 305 ms 350 ms 0%
Home page 0.895 206 ms 442 ms 533 ms 0%
Categories page 0.447 239 ms 340 ms 647 ms 0%
User activity page 0.431 145 ms 156 ms 300 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.61 290 ms 774 ms 1.03 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.31 135 ms 470 ms 495 ms 0%
Home page 2.3 245 ms 589 ms 749 ms 0%
Categories page 1.17 273 ms 619 ms 683 ms 0%
User activity page 1.16 166 ms 495 ms 520 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.81 1.71 s 2.14 s 2.96 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.94 1.2 s 1.73 s 2.38 s 0%
Home page 1.94 1.66 s 2.04 s 2.95 s 0%
Categories page 0.956 1.8 s 2.33 s 3.67 s 0%
User activity page 0.972 1.3 s 2.2 s 2.63 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 79 31.5 ms 357 ms 413 ms 0%
Topic JSON 39.6 28.9 ms 136 ms 409 ms 0%
Home page 39.6 31.6 ms 364 ms 417 ms 0%
Categories page 19.8 29.9 ms 348 ms 407 ms 0%
User activity page 19.8 215 ms 634 ms 946 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 8 app workers and 1024 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 4 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and didn't need it. The container peaked at 2,769 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 7.56 36.6 ms 46.7 ms 162 ms 0%
Post page 18.9 18.2 ms 23.5 ms 35.9 ms 0%
Tag page 3.78 23.2 ms 28.7 ms 37 ms 0%
Author page 3.78 24.6 ms 31 ms 68 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.78 27.8 ms 35.2 ms 43.7 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 6.64 116 ms 469 ms 478 ms 0%
Post page 16.6 76.9 ms 420 ms 439 ms 0%
Tag page 3.33 68.3 ms 421 ms 433 ms 0%
Author page 3.33 74.5 ms 420 ms 442 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.3 74.5 ms 420 ms 431 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 6.98 491 ms 805 ms 833 ms 0%
Post page 17.4 392 ms 733 ms 777 ms 0%
Tag page 3.49 234 ms 598 ms 623 ms 0%
Author page 3.47 236 ms 594 ms 641 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.47 247 ms 614 ms 645 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.1 32.9 ms 42.3 ms 278 ms 0%
Post editor 12.3 12.3 ms 16.4 ms 22.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 12.3 31.2 ms 39.9 ms 287 ms 0%
Member list 4.1 39.5 ms 50.1 ms 281 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.05 43.5 ms 379 ms 388 ms 0%
Post editor 12.2 22 ms 36.1 ms 362 ms 0%
Saving a draft 12.2 182 ms 533 ms 547 ms 0%
Member list 4.07 53.2 ms 67 ms 392 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 299 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.55 85.3 ms 93.7 ms 115 ms 0%
Blog index 1.53 291 ms 316 ms 371 ms 0%
Blog post 4.61 27.8 ms 43.5 ms 49.5 ms 0%
Bread page 4.61 30.5 ms 36.2 ms 41.8 ms 0%
Location page 1.55 28.7 ms 33.5 ms 36.5 ms 0%
Site search 1.53 46.6 ms 78.3 ms 83.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.7 217 ms 314 ms 351 ms 0%
Blog index 2.75 712 ms 1.08 s 1.22 s 0%
Blog post 8.09 55.3 ms 94.4 ms 131 ms 0%
Bread page 8.14 63.1 ms 103 ms 116 ms 0%
Location page 2.75 57.9 ms 98.8 ms 125 ms 0%
Site search 2.68 86.2 ms 192 ms 238 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.8 661 ms 869 ms 962 ms 0%
Blog index 2.85 1.78 s 2.13 s 2.34 s 0%
Blog post 8.34 359 ms 574 ms 726 ms 0%
Bread page 8.37 378 ms 632 ms 801 ms 0%
Location page 2.83 366 ms 620 ms 779 ms 0%
Site search 2.76 431 ms 720 ms 815 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.545 94.5 ms 123 ms 297 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.12 418 ms 649 ms 754 ms 0%
Page editor 1.65 194 ms 246 ms 298 ms 0%
Image library 0.545 73.4 ms 85.2 ms 898 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.545 40.9 ms 83.7 ms 136 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.918 293 ms 614 ms 720 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.88 921 ms 2.03 s 2.96 s 0%
Page editor 2.83 465 ms 856 ms 1.01 s 0%
Image library 0.95 235 ms 601 ms 668 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.918 97.5 ms 239 ms 438 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 20 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 297 MB, Postgres at 192 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 4
CPU Shared vCPU 30.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 80 GB SSD 77.4 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
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2850 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
77.4 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
30.1% 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
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
Cloud VPS 4 (Gen 2)
Product line
Cloud VPS
Location
Chicago, US
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
80 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
1 Gbps
Transfer
1 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$10.53
Hourly price at test time
$0.059
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 12, 2026, 10:21:51 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:24:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 12, 2026, 07:21:39 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 07:21:39 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 08:50:10 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 08:50:10 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.089
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