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Ashburn

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 15, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,489
Faster than 80% of 1 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
185,128
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€5.50 EUR
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    X-ZoneServers
  • Plan
    VPS I KVM
  • Location
    Ashburn
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    2 GB
  • Storage
    20 GB SSD
  • Network
    1 Gbps
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 15, 2026, 08:33:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,489 Skipped Geekbench Browser

Multi-core was skipped because Geekbench 7 needs about 2.1 GB of free memory to run 1 thread, 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
1,472
54th of 191
Single-core only
Navigation
1,607
42nd of 191
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,483
45th of 191
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,501
58th of 191
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,523
42nd of 191
Single-core only
Clang
1,363
45th of 191
Single-core only
Text Processing
1,378
49th of 191
Single-core only
Asset Compression
1,453
65th of 191
Single-core only
HDR
1,512
49th of 191
Single-core only
Photo Editor
1,792
36th of 191
Single-core only
Ray Tracer
1,388
59th of 191
Single-core only
Structure from Motion
1,723
38th of 191
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,368
60th of 191
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,406
54th of 191
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,414
69th of 191
Single-core only
Video Player
1,508
60th of 191
Single-core only

Rank among the 191 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 29.9 GB/s 3 2.92%
Scale higher is better 36.3 GB/s 3 6.96%
Add higher is better 26.9 GB/s 3 13%
Triad higher is better 28 GB/s 3 8.07%

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 560/s 3 0.812%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 13,509/s 3 0.0886%
SHA-256 higher is better 835 MB/s 3 0.234%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 8.26 GB/s 3 0.0414%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 3.12 GB/s 3 0.0763%

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 4.8 ms 3 0.192%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 206/s 3 0.28%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 8.64 ms 3 3%
Requests per second, average higher is better 206/s 3 0.363%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 361.1 MB/s (92,442 IOPS) 362.1 MB/s (92,686 IOPS) 723.2 MB/s (185,128 IOPS)
64K 2.65 GB/s (43,402 IOPS) 2.66 GB/s (43,630 IOPS) 5.31 GB/s (87,032 IOPS)
512K 6.13 GB/s (12,547 IOPS) 6.45 GB/s (13,213 IOPS) 12.58 GB/s (25,760 IOPS)
1M 6.52 GB/s (6,673 IOPS) 6.95 GB/s (7,117 IOPS) 13.47 GB/s (13,790 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 96.9 Mbps 88.2 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 98.4 Mbps 89.5 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 90.8 Mbps 69.2 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 101 Mbps 92.1 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 99.5 Mbps 88.3 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 2,586 0.387 ms
fdatasync 2,610 0.383 ms
fsync 1,149 0.871 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,237 0.808 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,394 0.718 ms
fdatasync 2,382 0.42 ms
fsync 1,162 0.86 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 662 1.51 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 1,287 0.777 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 664 1.51 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 329 3.04 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 227 4.4 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 107 9.38 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,251 0.799 ms
write, close, fsync 1,190 0.84 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,636,801 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 1,731 0.559 ms 0.685 ms 0.926 ms 1.82 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,959 1.77 ms 3.66 ms 5.27 ms 10.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,303 5.72 ms 18 ms 31 ms 51.7 ms 0
Read only 1 63,510 0.015 ms 0.019 ms 0.03 ms 0.045 ms 0
Read only 8 54,499 0.125 ms 0.232 ms 0.271 ms 0.545 ms 0
Read only 32 50,044 0.566 ms 0.719 ms 0.847 ms 1.78 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.3 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.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,204 0.806 ms 1.01 ms 1.66 ms 3.04 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,143 2.53 ms 3.99 ms 5.36 ms 9.66 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,081 7.4 ms 11.3 ms 14.5 ms 19.8 ms 0
Read only 1 16,039 0.033 ms 0.142 ms 0.219 ms 0.779 ms 0
Read only 8 31,111 0.209 ms 0.494 ms 0.667 ms 1.66 ms 0
Read only 32 29,190 0.954 ms 1.47 ms 2.17 ms 3.2 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 13.7 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 1 352 7,031 2.66 ms 3.43 ms 7.3 ms 0
Read/write 8 755 15,108 10.3 ms 15.5 ms 21.1 ms 0
Read/write 32 759 15,176 39.7 ms 69.3 ms 90.8 ms 0
Read only 1 1,746 27,937 0.556 ms 0.654 ms 1.04 ms 0
Read only 8 1,600 25,602 4.91 ms 5.99 ms 6.91 ms 0
Read only 32 1,453 23,245 21.9 ms 26.7 ms 29.7 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 12.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 79,163 71,966 0.847 ms 1.19 ms 2.56 ms
1:1 set:get 77,553 38,776 0.863 ms 1.25 ms 2.62 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 371 1,374 1,997 1.3 s
Express express-postgresjs 4,145 6,680 31,981 969 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 4,117 6,938 36,453 1.73 s
NestJS nestjs 3,554 3,657 15,015 123 ms
Nuxt nuxt 3,774 6,781 29,238 1.91 s
FastAPI fastapi 2,441 3,097 15,461 466 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,072 1,209 3,061 264 ms
Rails rails 2,069 2,880 12,760 135 ms
Laravel laravel 513 547 959 530 ms
Symfony symfony 626 684 1,901 423 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 1.39 1.09 s 1.18 s 1.2 s 0%
Shop page 1.39 1.41 s 1.58 s 1.59 s 0%
Category page 1.39 1.17 s 1.51 s 1.56 s 0%
Product page 1.39 1.06 s 1.21 s 1.26 s 0%
Product search 1.39 975 ms 1.06 s 1.13 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.4 4 s 4.41 s 4.51 s 0%
Shop page 1.4 5.28 s 6 s 6.17 s 0%
Category page 1.4 4.91 s 5.7 s 5.95 s 0%
Product page 1.4 4.32 s 4.56 s 4.63 s 0%
Product search 1.4 4.02 s 4.32 s 4.38 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.72 1.11 s 1.23 s 1.25 s 0%
Cart 2.72 996 ms 1.1 s 1.13 s 0%
Checkout 2.72 833 ms 985 ms 1.02 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.78 3.72 s 4.66 s 4.84 s 0%
Cart 2.78 4.21 s 4.61 s 4.76 s 0%
Checkout 2.78 3.33 s 3.76 s 3.85 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 69 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 2.55 165 ms 272 ms 453 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.29 82.4 ms 116 ms 167 ms 0%
Home page 1.29 150 ms 218 ms 339 ms 0%
Categories page 0.646 174 ms 275 ms 416 ms 0%
User activity page 0.646 102 ms 239 ms 283 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.11 809 ms 1.02 s 2.01 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.07 425 ms 505 ms 574 ms 0%
Home page 1.05 734 ms 915 ms 1.77 s 0%
Categories page 0.544 845 ms 2.3 s 2.43 s 0%
User activity page 0.527 493 ms 855 ms 1.26 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.01 1.89 s 2.56 s 3.27 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.02 1.5 s 1.97 s 2.27 s 0%
Home page 1.02 1.87 s 2.34 s 3.11 s 0%
Categories page 0.517 1.92 s 2.38 s 2.42 s 0%
User activity page 0.485 1.62 s 1.95 s 2.04 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 45.4 95.5 ms 240 ms 316 ms 0%
Topic JSON 22.7 91.6 ms 235 ms 293 ms 0.0728%
Home page 22.7 90.3 ms 238 ms 315 ms 0%
Categories page 11.4 103 ms 244 ms 314 ms 0%
User activity page 11.4 300 ms 481 ms 785 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. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 256 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 2 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and used up to 353 MB of it. The container peaked at 1,505 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 8.16 33.9 ms 45.1 ms 84.4 ms 0%
Post page 20.4 17.2 ms 26.4 ms 54.9 ms 0%
Tag page 4.08 22.9 ms 30.4 ms 37.3 ms 0%
Author page 4.08 23.8 ms 32.9 ms 43.4 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.06 26.7 ms 36.1 ms 58.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 8.37 125 ms 182 ms 261 ms 0%
Post page 20.9 84.8 ms 125 ms 202 ms 0%
Tag page 4.19 76 ms 102 ms 156 ms 0%
Author page 4.19 82.7 ms 137 ms 208 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.18 83.4 ms 119 ms 200 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 8.3 476 ms 621 ms 657 ms 0%
Post page 20.8 396 ms 534 ms 583 ms 0%
Tag page 4.15 255 ms 378 ms 418 ms 0%
Author page 4.18 251 ms 377 ms 415 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.12 261 ms 380 ms 406 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.25 33.8 ms 53.6 ms 89.2 ms 0%
Post editor 12.8 13.5 ms 20.7 ms 36.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 12.8 33 ms 46.9 ms 85.5 ms 0%
Member list 4.25 37.1 ms 54.5 ms 79.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.57 50.8 ms 68.3 ms 137 ms 0%
Post editor 13.8 25.2 ms 37.1 ms 64.4 ms 0%
Saving a draft 13.8 215 ms 297 ms 366 ms 0%
Member list 4.59 55.1 ms 73.7 ms 172 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 346 MB and MySQL at 576 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.85 68.3 ms 84.7 ms 102 ms 0%
Blog index 1.83 235 ms 263 ms 314 ms 0%
Blog post 5.49 22.7 ms 34.1 ms 42.7 ms 0%
Bread page 5.51 24.8 ms 31 ms 38.9 ms 0%
Location page 1.83 23.9 ms 31.9 ms 46.6 ms 0%
Site search 1.83 38.9 ms 69.3 ms 226 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.8 310 ms 393 ms 597 ms 0%
Blog index 1.85 1 s 1.16 s 1.34 s 0%
Blog post 5.42 86.7 ms 137 ms 158 ms 0%
Bread page 5.45 97.9 ms 126 ms 186 ms 0%
Location page 1.85 93.5 ms 117 ms 127 ms 0%
Site search 1.78 147 ms 272 ms 289 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 1.76 1.06 s 1.38 s 1.45 s 0%
Blog index 1.81 2.59 s 3.21 s 3.33 s 0%
Blog post 5.24 615 ms 989 ms 1.16 s 0%
Bread page 5.26 614 ms 929 ms 1.08 s 0%
Location page 1.76 599 ms 953 ms 1.13 s 0%
Site search 1.75 734 ms 1.1 s 1.16 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.911 68.3 ms 75.9 ms 86.7 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.85 253 ms 275 ms 394 ms 0%
Page editor 2.77 120 ms 150 ms 267 ms 0%
Image library 0.911 49.3 ms 56.8 ms 517 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.911 26.7 ms 57.9 ms 61 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.826 365 ms 465 ms 498 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.7 1.19 s 1.44 s 1.77 s 0%
Page editor 2.51 550 ms 742 ms 970 ms 0%
Image library 0.826 253 ms 436 ms 639 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.826 128 ms 274 ms 389 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 296 MB, Postgres at 175 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 2 GB 1.9 GiB
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
AMD EPYC-Turin Processor
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
2250 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
1.9 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
19.3 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-124-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
VPS I KVM
Product line
Hourly VPS
Location
Ashburn
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
2 GB
Storage
20 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
1 Gbps
Transfer
Unmetered
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€5.50 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.0077 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 15, 2026, 08:35:41 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 15, 2026, 08:33:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 15, 2026, 08:33:53 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 15, 2026, 08:33:53 UTC
Completed
Oct 15, 2026, 10:12:58 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 15, 2026, 10:12:58 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.013 EUR
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