# UpCloud Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB

[New York #1](https://rackcensus.com/locations/new-york-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in New York")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 8, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

Skipped

Geekbench 7 multi-core

Skipped

Disk 4K IOPS

16,263

fio random read and write, 50/50

Median here: 17,097 over 3 runs in 90 days

Monthly price at test time

€3.50 EUR

Same price today

## Server

[UpCloud](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/upcloud-benchmarks)[Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB](https://rackcensus.com/plans/wn4ded-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-benchmarks?location=us-nyc1)

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Provider

UpCloud

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Plan

Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB

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Location

New York #1

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vCPU

1

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RAM

1 GB

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Storage

10 GB

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Network

Unknown

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OS image

01000000-0000-4000-8000-000030240200

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 8, 2026, 01:29:00 UTC

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## Latest runs of this plan

- [San Jose #1 Oct 8, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/hmwxbk-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-us-sjo1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Amsterdam #1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/elq8tn-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-nl-ams1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Frankfurt #1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/lg5sy9-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-de-fra1-benchmark)Skipped
- [San Jose #1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/i7bhws-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-us-sjo1-benchmark)Skipped
- [New York #1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/0nuc7d-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-us-nyc1-benchmark)Skipped

[Full history of this plan](https://rackcensus.com/plans/wn4ded-upcloud-starter-1-vcpu-1-gb-benchmarks/history)

## 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 | 30.9 GB/s | 3 | 0.785% |
| Scale higher is better | 19.2 GB/s | 3 | 0.205% |
| Add higher is better | 22.9 GB/s | 3 | 0.311% |
| Triad higher is better | 22.7 GB/s | 3 | 0.646% |

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 | 231/s | 3 | 1.15% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 14,962/s | 3 | 1.24% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 687 MB/s | 3 | 0.976% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 3.52 GB/s | 3 | 0.922% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 1.78 GB/s | 3 | 0.513% |

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 | 4.09 ms | 3 | 0.246% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 242/s | 3 | 0.239% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 7.43 ms | 3 | 2.77% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 241/s | 3 | 0.51% |

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

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 31.7 MB/s (8,124 IOPS) | 31.8 MB/s (8,139 IOPS) | 63.5 MB/s (16,263 IOPS) |
| 64K | 320.4 MB/s (5,125 IOPS) | 322 MB/s (5,152 IOPS) | 642.4 MB/s (10,277 IOPS) |
| 512K | 381.7 MB/s (763 IOPS) | 402 MB/s (804 IOPS) | 783.8 MB/s (1,567 IOPS) |
| 1M | 379.8 MB/s (379 IOPS) | 405.1 MB/s (405 IOPS) | 784.8 MB/s (784 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 | busy | 1.02 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 1.02 Gbps | 1.02 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 647 Mbps | 873 Mbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | busy | busy |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.07 Gbps | 1.07 Gbps |

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 | 3,409 | 0.293 ms |
| fdatasync | 3,311 | 0.302 ms |
| fsync | 1,975 | 0.506 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 2,066 | 0.484 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 1,780 | 0.562 ms |
| fdatasync | 2,950 | 0.339 ms |
| fsync | 1,754 | 0.57 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 1,022 | 0.979 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 1,939 | 0.516 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 1,062 | 0.942 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 503 | 1.99 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 260 | 3.84 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 129 | 7.73 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 1,927 | 0.519 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 1,796 | 0.557 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 527,892 | 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 | 1,606 | 0.551 ms | 0.879 ms | 1.7 ms | 4.66 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 2,812 | 2.54 ms | 4.54 ms | 6.36 ms | 15.9 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,687 | 9.45 ms | 25.9 ms | 43.7 ms | 95.6 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 26,295 | 0.035 ms | 0.049 ms | 0.06 ms | 0.22 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 28,447 | 0.239 ms | 0.433 ms | 0.502 ms | 1.16 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 28,754 | 0.943 ms | 1.36 ms | 1.61 ms | 2.65 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.13 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 | 983 | 0.885 ms | 1.56 ms | 3.12 ms | 13.2 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 1,869 | 3.34 ms | 7.24 ms | 20.6 ms | 85.3 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,098 | 13.1 ms | 21.9 ms | 80.4 ms | 94 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 3,328 | 0.287 ms | 0.503 ms | 1.32 ms | 2.67 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 6,097 | 0.805 ms | 1.75 ms | 33.1 ms | 40.7 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 6,172 | 2.58 ms | 38.4 ms | 48.9 ms | 52.1 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 22.8 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 | 279 | 5,577 | 2.97 ms | 4.91 ms | 13.2 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 462 | 9,239 | 16.1 ms | 25.7 ms | 38.9 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 481 | 9,628 | 61.1 ms | 109 ms | 140 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 910 | 14,562 | 1.04 ms | 1.34 ms | 2 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 884 | 14,151 | 8.9 ms | 10.5 ms | 13 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 827 | 13,231 | 37.6 ms | 45.8 ms | 53.9 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 14.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 35,137 | 31,942 | 1.71 ms | 3.26 ms | 5.34 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 34,491 | 17,245 | 1.79 ms | 3.31 ms | 5.31 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 | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Express | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Fastify | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| NestJS | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Nuxt | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| FastAPI | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Django | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Rails | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Laravel | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Symfony | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |

### WooCommerce

#### Page mix

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.19 | 1.22 s | 1.34 s | 1.36 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.19 | 1.59 s | 1.83 s | 1.87 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.19 | 1.45 s | 1.71 s | 1.81 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.19 | 1.22 s | 1.33 s | 1.39 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.19 | 1.13 s | 1.24 s | 1.26 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.36 | 4.69 s | 5.26 s | 5.32 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.36 | 6.04 s | 6.79 s | 6.97 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.36 | 5.66 s | 6.62 s | 6.83 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.05 | 4.79 s | 4.9 s | 4.96 s | 0% |
| Product search | 0.905 | 4.6 s | 4.76 s | 4.81 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 2.34 | 1.15 s | 1.33 s | 1.41 s | 0% |
| Cart | 2.34 | 1.18 s | 1.27 s | 1.35 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 2.34 | 950 ms | 1.05 s | 1.07 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 2.41 | 4.29 s | 5.25 s | 5.39 s | 0% |
| Cart | 2.41 | 4.88 s | 5.28 s | 5.4 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 2.41 | 3.84 s | 4.4 s | 4.48 s | 0% |

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 65 to 71 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 | 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen |
| RAM | 1 GB | 849 MiB |
| Storage | 10 GB | 9.8 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 7542 32-Core Processor

**CPU cores:** 1

**CPU frequency:** 2895 MHz

**AES-NI:** Yes

**VM-x/AMD-V:** No

**RAM reported:** 849 MiB

**Swap reported:** 0 MiB

**Disk reported:** 9.8 GiB

**Virtualization reported:** KVM

**CPU steal:** 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen

**Distro:** Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

**Kernel:** 6.8.0-137-generic

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**IPv4 reachable:** Yes

**IPv6 reachable:** Yes

## Advertised at test time

**Plan:** Starter 1 vCPU / 1 GB

**Product line:** Starter

**Location:** New York #1

**vCPU:** 1 shared vCPU

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**RAM:** 1 GB

**Storage:** 10 GB

**Virtualization:** KVM

**Network:** Unknown

**Transfer:** 512 GB

**Port 25:** Unknown

**Monthly price at test time:** €3.50 EUR

**Hourly price at test time:** €0.0052 EUR

**YABS version:** v2026-09-20

**Ran at:** Oct 8, 2026, 01:31:19 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 8, 2026, 01:29:00 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 8, 2026, 01:30:17 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 8, 2026, 02:41:06 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 8, 2026, 02:41:06 UTC

**Cost of this run:** €0.0063 EUR

Tests 35 of 35 done Live output 696 lines

Setup 1 cores, 848.6 MiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 66.6 MB/s at 4k, 823 MB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.02 Gbit/s send, 1.02 Gbit/s receive, 3 retried 5 of 5Done

Phoronix (memory, TLS, scheduler) 3 of 3Done

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

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