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Richmond 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 15, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
2,334
Faster than 98% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
4,513
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$32.61
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Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    v5 Shared 2 vCPU / 2 GB
  • Location
    Richmond 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    2 GB
  • Storage
    30 GB SSD
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 15, 2026, 08:34:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 2,334 Skipped Geekbench Browser

Multi-core was skipped because Geekbench 7 needs about 3.1 GB of free memory to run 2 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
2,250
4th of 191
Single-core only
Navigation
2,130
3rd of 191
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
2,432
2nd of 191
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
2,589
3rd of 191
Single-core only
Photo Library
2,085
7th of 191
Single-core only
Clang
2,094
3rd of 191
Single-core only
Text Processing
2,324
4th of 191
Single-core only
Asset Compression
2,322
4th of 191
Single-core only
HDR
2,402
3rd of 191
Single-core only
Photo Editor
2,711
8th of 191
Single-core only
Ray Tracer
2,041
4th of 191
Single-core only
Structure from Motion
2,334
6th of 191
Single-core only
Game Physics
2,261
3rd of 191
Single-core only
Video Encoder
2,468
2nd of 191
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
2,282
4th of 191
Single-core only
Video Player
2,770
4th 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 102 GB/s 3 1.88%
Scale higher is better 91.4 GB/s 3 1.23%
Add higher is better 92.9 GB/s 3 1.77%
Triad higher is better 93.1 GB/s 3 1.37%

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 678/s 3 0.424%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 44,573/s 3 0.263%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.48 GB/s 3 0.608%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 11.7 GB/s 3 0.719%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.83 GB/s 3 0.265%

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 2.96 ms 3 0.468%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 675/s 3 0.296%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 4.97 ms 3 1.4%
Requests per second, average higher is better 664/s 3 0.381%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 8.8 MB/s (2,251 IOPS) 8.8 MB/s (2,262 IOPS) 17.6 MB/s (4,513 IOPS)
64K 35.8 MB/s (572 IOPS) 36 MB/s (576 IOPS) 71.8 MB/s (1,148 IOPS)
512K 34.3 MB/s (68 IOPS) 36.4 MB/s (72 IOPS) 70.6 MB/s (140 IOPS)
1M 22.9 MB/s (22 IOPS) 25.3 MB/s (25 IOPS) 48.3 MB/s (47 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 1.85 Gbps 2.63 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.33 Gbps 2.6 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 677 Mbps 740 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.88 Gbps 3.79 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.97 Gbps 9.21 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 867 1.15 ms
fdatasync 894 1.12 ms
fsync 325 3.07 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 331 3.02 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 475 2.1 ms
fdatasync 935 1.07 ms
fsync 326 3.07 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 166 6.02 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 331 3.02 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 167 5.99 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 84.9 11.8 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 41.6 24 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 20.8 48 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 318 3.15 ms
write, close, fsync 319 3.13 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 834,131 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) 1 738 1.26 ms 1.79 ms 3.12 ms 7.04 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,292 2.6 ms 7.24 ms 11.1 ms 20.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,380 6.03 ms 27.6 ms 50.7 ms 149 ms 0
Read only 1 40,709 0.024 ms 0.028 ms 0.033 ms 0.05 ms 0
Read only 8 100,858 0.068 ms 0.114 ms 0.13 ms 0.181 ms 0
Read only 32 84,353 0.319 ms 0.464 ms 0.631 ms 1.01 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 4.16 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) 1 500 1.8 ms 2.62 ms 5.99 ms 22.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,487 2.79 ms 16.9 ms 46.7 ms 90.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 982 21.1 ms 81.2 ms 153 ms 253 ms 0
Read only 1 1,520 0.452 ms 1.91 ms 3.62 ms 6.64 ms 0
Read only 8 2,005 3.42 ms 9.99 ms 14.4 ms 18.8 ms 0
Read only 32 2,376 12.2 ms 26.8 ms 44.4 ms 50.9 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 87.3 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 1 119 2,389 5.88 ms 10.7 ms 99.3 ms 0
Read/write 8 363 7,268 10.7 ms 117 ms 200 ms 0
Read/write 32 603 12,058 24.4 ms 187 ms 303 ms 0
Read only 1 1,673 26,774 0.556 ms 0.665 ms 1.73 ms 0
Read only 8 3,758 60,122 2.07 ms 2.52 ms 3.43 ms 0
Read only 32 3,315 53,042 9.39 ms 12.5 ms 14 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 19.4 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 80,327 73,024 0.471 ms 2.69 ms 4.19 ms
1:1 set:get 79,897 39,948 0.479 ms 2.72 ms 4.35 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 1,059 3,874 5,184 363 ms
Express express-postgresjs 10,439 16,422 61,769 45.7 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 10,244 16,730 66,175 48.9 ms
NestJS nestjs 10,147 11,630 52,743 61.7 ms
Nuxt nuxt 9,309 16,421 58,493 53.3 ms
FastAPI fastapi 6,892 9,143 35,365 255 ms
Django django-postgresql 3,196 3,580 9,120 165 ms
Rails rails 5,118 7,398 30,242 68.4 ms
Laravel laravel 1,263 1,360 2,534 213 ms
Symfony symfony 1,545 1,680 5,439 176 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 4.09 392 ms 464 ms 485 ms 0%
Shop page 4.09 527 ms 609 ms 642 ms 0%
Category page 4.09 344 ms 561 ms 601 ms 0%
Product page 4.09 359 ms 448 ms 486 ms 0%
Product search 4.09 314 ms 386 ms 403 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 4.15 1.42 s 1.6 s 1.66 s 0%
Shop page 4.15 1.85 s 2.12 s 2.22 s 0%
Category page 4.15 1.64 s 1.96 s 2.06 s 0%
Product page 4.15 1.42 s 1.56 s 1.6 s 0%
Product search 4.15 1.32 s 1.46 s 1.5 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 7.89 425 ms 491 ms 512 ms 0%
Cart 7.89 347 ms 399 ms 411 ms 0%
Checkout 7.89 265 ms 311 ms 325 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 7.87 1.39 s 1.68 s 1.73 s 0%
Cart 7.87 1.45 s 1.62 s 1.69 s 0%
Checkout 7.87 1.17 s 1.36 s 1.44 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 62 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 4.02 108 ms 138 ms 254 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.03 54.9 ms 68.4 ms 171 ms 0%
Home page 2.03 97.2 ms 193 ms 320 ms 0%
Categories page 1.01 110 ms 136 ms 173 ms 0%
User activity page 1.01 69.2 ms 137 ms 217 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 6.51 266 ms 410 ms 788 ms 0%
Topic JSON 3.25 138 ms 195 ms 294 ms 0%
Home page 3.21 231 ms 344 ms 595 ms 0%
Categories page 1.66 268 ms 577 ms 822 ms 0%
User activity page 1.61 172 ms 475 ms 563 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 6.73 956 ms 1.24 s 1.38 s 0%
Topic JSON 3.41 835 ms 1.01 s 1.19 s 0%
Home page 3.39 918 ms 1.13 s 1.28 s 0%
Categories page 1.72 944 ms 1.22 s 1.5 s 0%
User activity page 1.69 844 ms 1.04 s 1.1 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 135 32.1 ms 83.6 ms 103 ms 0%
Topic JSON 67.4 30.3 ms 84.4 ms 108 ms 0%
Home page 67.3 31.3 ms 84.7 ms 104 ms 0%
Categories page 33.7 31.6 ms 84.6 ms 105 ms 0%
User activity page 33.7 107 ms 171 ms 284 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 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 495 MB of it. The container peaked at 1,510 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 17.4 15.4 ms 18.6 ms 27.5 ms 0%
Post page 43.5 8.75 ms 11.6 ms 18.6 ms 0%
Tag page 8.71 11 ms 13.7 ms 16.9 ms 0%
Author page 8.71 10.8 ms 13.6 ms 25 ms 0%
RSS feed 8.7 13.3 ms 15.9 ms 22.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 19.7 50 ms 69.7 ms 99.9 ms 0%
Post page 49.3 38.3 ms 54.9 ms 81.7 ms 0%
Tag page 9.88 32.8 ms 48.3 ms 75 ms 0%
Author page 9.84 32.7 ms 47.6 ms 70.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 9.84 34.3 ms 49.8 ms 73.5 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 19.2 205 ms 286 ms 302 ms 0%
Post page 47.9 170 ms 243 ms 266 ms 0%
Tag page 9.58 112 ms 175 ms 195 ms 0%
Author page 9.61 113 ms 172 ms 194 ms 0%
RSS feed 9.58 114 ms 169 ms 202 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 7.28 17.1 ms 22.6 ms 32.2 ms 0%
Post editor 21.8 6.88 ms 9.93 ms 14.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 21.8 23.7 ms 30.3 ms 41.3 ms 0%
Member list 7.28 19.5 ms 24.3 ms 28.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 9.74 20.4 ms 27.9 ms 43.7 ms 0%
Post editor 29.3 8.77 ms 13.5 ms 19.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 29.3 108 ms 142 ms 170 ms 0%
Member list 9.75 23.1 ms 27.9 ms 47.7 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 386 MB and MySQL at 585 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 3.43 38.9 ms 44.8 ms 47.9 ms 0%
Blog index 3.43 125 ms 153 ms 165 ms 0%
Blog post 10.2 12.4 ms 19.2 ms 21 ms 0%
Bread page 10.3 13.7 ms 16.3 ms 17.2 ms 0%
Location page 3.43 13 ms 15.7 ms 16.4 ms 0%
Site search 3.41 23.3 ms 38.7 ms 40 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 4.76 112 ms 177 ms 198 ms 0%
Blog index 4.76 400 ms 579 ms 623 ms 0%
Blog post 14.3 34.1 ms 58.4 ms 81.5 ms 0%
Bread page 14.3 36.6 ms 57.5 ms 65.8 ms 0%
Location page 4.79 35.1 ms 54.9 ms 74.7 ms 0%
Site search 4.74 54.2 ms 114 ms 140 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 5.4 341 ms 476 ms 565 ms 0%
Blog index 5.42 851 ms 1.02 s 1.09 s 0%
Blog post 16.1 195 ms 309 ms 407 ms 0%
Bread page 16.1 203 ms 320 ms 390 ms 0%
Location page 5.38 205 ms 336 ms 399 ms 0%
Site search 5.37 252 ms 409 ms 487 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 1.24 43.3 ms 47.3 ms 63.3 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.5 191 ms 208 ms 332 ms 0%
Page editor 3.73 93.4 ms 116 ms 216 ms 0%
Image library 1.24 33.6 ms 39.2 ms 175 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.24 18.3 ms 41.7 ms 45.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.87 161 ms 378 ms 412 ms 0%
Page explorer 3.78 486 ms 791 ms 855 ms 0%
Page editor 5.68 227 ms 444 ms 529 ms 0%
Image library 1.9 135 ms 346 ms 437 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.87 51.4 ms 145 ms 224 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 307 MB, Postgres at 170 MB, and Redis at 29 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 2 GB 1.9 GiB
Storage 30 GB SSD 29 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 9555P 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3195 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
1.9 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
29 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% 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
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
v5 Shared 2 vCPU / 2 GB
Product line
v5 Shared
Location
Richmond 1
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
2 GB
Storage
30 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
3 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$32.61
Hourly price at test time
$0.044
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 15, 2026, 08:36:36 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 15, 2026, 08:34:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 15, 2026, 08:35:09 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 15, 2026, 08:35:09 UTC
Completed
Oct 15, 2026, 10:11:02 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 15, 2026, 10:11:02 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.071
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