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Amsterdam #1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 10, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
19,725
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€6.00 EUR
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Server

  • Provider
    UpCloud
  • Plan
    Premium 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    Amsterdam #1
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    01000000-0000-4000-8000-000030240200
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 10, 2026, 01:45:00 UTC
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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 56.5 GB/s 3 0.366%
Scale higher is better 54.2 GB/s 3 0.309%
Add higher is better 59.5 GB/s 3 0.654%
Triad higher is better 61.2 GB/s 3 2.08%

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 869/s 3 1.6%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 24,275/s 3 1.19%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.36 GB/s 3 2.99%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 22.5 GB/s 3 1.05%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.8 GB/s 3 4.44%

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 2.68 ms 3 0.752%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 376/s 3 0.933%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 4.97 ms 3 2.23%
Requests per second, average higher is better 365/s 3 1.17%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 38.5 MB/s (9,852 IOPS) 38.6 MB/s (9,873 IOPS) 77.1 MB/s (19,725 IOPS)
64K 383.5 MB/s (6,136 IOPS) 385.5 MB/s (6,168 IOPS) 769.1 MB/s (12,304 IOPS)
512K 381.2 MB/s (762 IOPS) 401.5 MB/s (802 IOPS) 782.7 MB/s (1,564 IOPS)
1M 379.3 MB/s (379 IOPS) 404.5 MB/s (404 IOPS) 783.8 MB/s (783 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 1.07 Gbps 1.07 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.07 Gbps 1.07 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 332 Mbps 857 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 677 Mbps 961 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 976 Mbps 991 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 5,977 0.167 ms
fdatasync 6,504 0.154 ms
fsync 4,531 0.221 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 5,596 0.179 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 3,564 0.281 ms
fdatasync 5,618 0.178 ms
fsync 4,806 0.208 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,687 0.372 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 5,135 0.195 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,900 0.345 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,472 0.679 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 790 1.27 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 327 3.06 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 4,435 0.225 ms
write, close, fsync 5,248 0.191 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 2,990,551 0 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 4,016 0.206 ms 0.364 ms 0.849 ms 6.03 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 7,112 0.838 ms 2.15 ms 5.32 ms 27 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,040 3.61 ms 13.6 ms 30.8 ms 65.6 ms 0
Read only 1 97,552 0.009 ms 0.014 ms 0.017 ms 0.036 ms 0
Read only 8 85,431 0.081 ms 0.149 ms 0.193 ms 0.29 ms 0
Read only 32 81,199 0.35 ms 0.464 ms 0.538 ms 1.13 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.34 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 1,927 0.406 ms 0.796 ms 2.11 ms 21.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,167 1.05 ms 2.7 ms 9.19 ms 45.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,282 4.12 ms 8.18 ms 29.4 ms 69.1 ms 0
Read only 1 7,609 0.12 ms 0.213 ms 0.535 ms 1.49 ms 0
Read only 8 29,300 0.215 ms 0.411 ms 1.06 ms 19 ms 0
Read only 32 31,237 0.72 ms 1.57 ms 2.87 ms 25.6 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 14.1 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 1 669 13,381 1.23 ms 2.11 ms 6.43 ms 0
Read/write 8 1,322 26,444 5.18 ms 9.91 ms 29.7 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,247 24,936 21.5 ms 50.1 ms 84.5 ms 0
Read only 1 3,511 56,173 0.266 ms 0.395 ms 0.527 ms 0
Read only 8 2,994 47,910 2.57 ms 3.55 ms 4.33 ms 0
Read only 32 2,284 36,539 12.5 ms 19.3 ms 29.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 7.6 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 138,126 125,569 0.479 ms 0.735 ms 1.57 ms
1:1 set:get 135,943 67,971 0.487 ms 0.743 ms 1.56 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 express-postgresjs 22,166 21,803 59,405 22.4 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 21,736 30,169 73,654 207 ms
NestJS nestjs 521 626 14,784 1.39 s
Nuxt nuxt 12,705 21,633 48,415 577 ms
FastAPI fastapi 4,387 5,742 25,715 185 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,869 2,211 6,000 167 ms
Rails rails 3,256 4,486 27,514 95.4 ms
Laravel laravel 904 936 1,609 522 ms
Symfony symfony 1,065 1,144 3,461 307 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 2.15 681 ms 829 ms 860 ms 0%
Shop page 2.15 872 ms 1.07 s 1.18 s 0%
Category page 2.15 763 ms 1.04 s 1.12 s 0%
Product page 2.15 669 ms 931 ms 1.12 s 0%
Product search 2.15 634 ms 797 ms 855 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.11 2.58 s 2.97 s 3.12 s 0%
Shop page 2.11 3.35 s 4.15 s 4.4 s 0%
Category page 2.11 3.2 s 4.05 s 4.29 s 0%
Product page 2.11 2.83 s 3.16 s 3.51 s 0%
Product search 2.11 2.69 s 3.75 s 3.85 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.26 650 ms 808 ms 850 ms 0%
Cart 4.26 668 ms 784 ms 837 ms 0%
Checkout 4.26 530 ms 644 ms 773 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 4.26 2.45 s 2.98 s 3.2 s 0%
Cart 4.26 2.7 s 3.04 s 3.25 s 0%
Checkout 4.26 2.26 s 2.7 s 2.77 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 70 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 0.5% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 848 MiB
Storage 25 GB NVMe 24.5 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 9575F 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
3295 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
848 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
24.5 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.5% 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
Premium 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Premium
Location
Amsterdam #1
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
25 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
512 GB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€6.00 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.0089 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 10, 2026, 01:46:44 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 10, 2026, 01:45:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 10, 2026, 01:46:39 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 10, 2026, 01:46:39 UTC
Completed
Oct 10, 2026, 02:53:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 10, 2026, 02:53:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.010 EUR
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