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RamNode 8GB VDS

Piscataway, NJ

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,170
Faster than 43% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,108
Faster than 45% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
77,602
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$50.00
42 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    RamNode
  • Plan
    8GB VDS
  • Location
    Piscataway, NJ
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    200 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04 Server Cloud
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,170 2,108 Geekbench Browser

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
1,181
63rd of 106
1,777
70th of 90
Navigation
1,479
39th of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,149
59th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,256
64th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
964
68th of 106
1,889
66th of 90
Clang
1,229
45th of 106
2,515
48th of 90
Text Processing
1,174
54th of 106
2,246
50th of 90
Asset Compression
952
86th of 106
1,917
69th of 90
HDR
1,043
63rd of 106
1,917
63rd of 90
Photo Editor
1,259
63rd of 106
2,313
53rd of 90
Ray Tracer
1,209
64th of 106
2,417
61st of 90
Structure from Motion
1,278
63rd of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,131
68th of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,130
67th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,193
70th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,192
68th of 106
Single-core only

Rank among the 106 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 20.2 GB/s 3 0.654%
Scale higher is better 17.8 GB/s 3 0.255%
Add higher is better 19.4 GB/s 3 0.15%
Triad higher is better 19.6 GB/s 3 0.228%

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 509/s 3 3.35%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 33,847/s 3 0.466%
SHA-256 higher is better 590 MB/s 3 0.505%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 8 GB/s 3 0.155%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.02 GB/s 3 0.542%

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 3.54 ms 3 0%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 558/s 3 0.414%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 7.6 ms 3 4.5%
Requests per second, average higher is better 549/s 3 0.559%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 151.4 MB/s (38,750 IOPS) 151.8 MB/s (38,852 IOPS) 303.1 MB/s (77,602 IOPS)
64K 332.2 MB/s (5,315 IOPS) 334 MB/s (5,343 IOPS) 666.2 MB/s (10,658 IOPS)
512K 334 MB/s (668 IOPS) 351.7 MB/s (703 IOPS) 685.8 MB/s (1,371 IOPS)
1M 443.2 MB/s (443 IOPS) 472.7 MB/s (472 IOPS) 915.9 MB/s (915 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 1.56 Gbps 365 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.43 Gbps 2.43 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 592 Mbps 773 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.49 Gbps 477 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 9.38 Gbps 3.36 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 3,966 0.252 ms
fdatasync 4,621 0.216 ms
fsync 1,806 0.554 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,197 0.313 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,454 0.407 ms
fdatasync 4,003 0.25 ms
fsync 3,132 0.319 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,567 0.638 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,155 0.317 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,100 0.476 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,119 0.894 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 563 1.78 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 276 3.63 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,529 0.395 ms
write, close, fsync 2,922 0.342 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 678,623 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 1,332 0.662 ms 1.22 ms 1.5 ms 7.83 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,247 1.68 ms 3.25 ms 4.96 ms 8.26 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,415 5.56 ms 17.3 ms 29.6 ms 74.8 ms 0
Read only 1 27,842 0.034 ms 0.049 ms 0.063 ms 0.11 ms 0
Read only 8 50,717 0.142 ms 0.231 ms 0.287 ms 0.868 ms 0
Read only 32 48,677 0.562 ms 0.91 ms 1.32 ms 2.75 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.92 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) 1 943 0.943 ms 1.63 ms 2.83 ms 7.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,175 2.17 ms 4.04 ms 14.2 ms 28.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,219 6.58 ms 13.2 ms 28 ms 53.6 ms 0
Read only 1 18,526 0.05 ms 0.076 ms 0.111 ms 0.459 ms 0
Read only 8 37,135 0.198 ms 0.323 ms 0.419 ms 1.44 ms 0
Read only 32 36,127 0.797 ms 1.22 ms 1.79 ms 3.37 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 19.3 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 1 226 4,527 3.68 ms 7.43 ms 18.3 ms 0
Read/write 8 725 14,497 9.22 ms 27.7 ms 43.4 ms 0
Read/write 32 762 15,231 40.4 ms 71.8 ms 92.4 ms 0
Read only 1 977 15,625 0.954 ms 1.47 ms 2.07 ms 0
Read only 8 1,664 26,626 4.57 ms 6.55 ms 8.13 ms 0
Read only 32 1,440 23,042 21.9 ms 28.2 ms 33.1 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11.4 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 66,029 60,026 0.615 ms 3.01 ms 5.41 ms
1:1 set:get 69,788 34,894 0.575 ms 2.75 ms 4.51 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 609 2,096 2,926 657 ms
Express express-postgresjs 7,017 9,979 35,031 69.1 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 6,880 10,668 38,290 73.4 ms
NestJS nestjs 4,496 4,933 19,396 93.5 ms
Nuxt nuxt 6,280 9,586 32,949 98.7 ms
FastAPI fastapi 3,539 4,225 20,509 509 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,406 1,639 3,502 289 ms
Rails rails 1,916 2,824 11,646 171 ms
Laravel laravel 797 831 1,461 350 ms
Symfony symfony 962 1,056 2,696 321 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 2.22 703 ms 804 ms 881 ms 0%
Shop page 2.22 959 ms 1.07 s 1.09 s 0%
Category page 2.22 603 ms 957 ms 1.03 s 0%
Product page 2.22 659 ms 751 ms 806 ms 0%
Product search 2.22 566 ms 637 ms 719 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.26 2.61 s 2.94 s 3 s 0%
Shop page 2.26 3.42 s 3.84 s 3.89 s 0%
Category page 2.26 3.05 s 3.54 s 3.76 s 0%
Product page 2.26 2.64 s 2.84 s 2.89 s 0%
Product search 2.08 2.43 s 2.66 s 2.75 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.29 760 ms 859 ms 890 ms 0%
Cart 4.29 611 ms 695 ms 722 ms 0%
Checkout 4.29 474 ms 551 ms 569 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 4.31 2.5 s 3.01 s 3.09 s 0%
Cart 4.31 2.67 s 2.9 s 3.03 s 0%
Checkout 4.31 2.13 s 2.43 s 2.52 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 71 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 1.82 246 ms 311 ms 568 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.924 122 ms 160 ms 208 ms 0%
Home page 0.924 227 ms 291 ms 531 ms 0%
Categories page 0.462 243 ms 303 ms 305 ms 0%
User activity page 0.462 150 ms 345 ms 434 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 3.76 466 ms 690 ms 1.12 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.9 238 ms 306 ms 444 ms 0%
Home page 1.88 417 ms 617 ms 1.03 s 0%
Categories page 0.973 464 ms 611 ms 1.15 s 0%
User activity page 0.94 295 ms 357 ms 590 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.9 1.5 s 1.79 s 2 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.96 1.26 s 1.64 s 2.01 s 0%
Home page 1.98 1.44 s 1.8 s 2.15 s 0%
Categories page 0.971 1.51 s 1.87 s 2.25 s 0%
User activity page 1.02 1.33 s 1.7 s 1.79 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 80.7 54.5 ms 142 ms 191 ms 0%
Topic JSON 40.4 50.6 ms 135 ms 188 ms 0%
Home page 40.4 53.9 ms 146 ms 190 ms 0%
Categories page 20.2 52.6 ms 148 ms 203 ms 0%
User activity page 20.2 179 ms 295 ms 476 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 4 app workers and 2048 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 8 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,009 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 8.2 33.9 ms 41.8 ms 51.6 ms 0%
Post page 20.5 17.6 ms 24.4 ms 30.6 ms 0%
Tag page 4.1 23.7 ms 31.3 ms 37.1 ms 0%
Author page 4.1 23.5 ms 33.2 ms 47.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.1 30.4 ms 37.2 ms 53.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 10.5 99.6 ms 128 ms 153 ms 0%
Post page 26.2 69.5 ms 98.7 ms 115 ms 0%
Tag page 5.24 64.3 ms 93.5 ms 107 ms 0%
Author page 5.24 65 ms 93.8 ms 111 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.24 73.4 ms 95.4 ms 103 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 10.7 377 ms 455 ms 502 ms 0%
Post page 26.7 315 ms 387 ms 428 ms 0%
Tag page 5.35 206 ms 268 ms 296 ms 0%
Author page 5.36 209 ms 267 ms 306 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.33 210 ms 275 ms 303 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.55 31.1 ms 43.3 ms 51.8 ms 0%
Post editor 13.7 12 ms 16.7 ms 20.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 13.7 32.9 ms 41.8 ms 49.2 ms 0%
Member list 4.55 37.3 ms 55 ms 67 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 5.98 41.3 ms 50.8 ms 65.8 ms 0%
Post editor 18 19 ms 27.4 ms 34.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 18 165 ms 211 ms 246 ms 0%
Member list 6 45.9 ms 65.2 ms 82.9 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 531 MB and MySQL at 619 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.46 85.6 ms 109 ms 142 ms 0%
Blog index 1.46 305 ms 382 ms 414 ms 0%
Blog post 4.37 28.9 ms 42.9 ms 48.1 ms 0%
Bread page 4.37 31 ms 40.7 ms 44.8 ms 0%
Location page 1.46 29.4 ms 40 ms 43.8 ms 0%
Site search 1.45 47.4 ms 88.2 ms 105 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.59 213 ms 305 ms 381 ms 0%
Blog index 2.64 740 ms 1.14 s 1.35 s 0%
Blog post 7.78 57.7 ms 102 ms 146 ms 0%
Bread page 7.81 64.8 ms 99.3 ms 116 ms 0%
Location page 2.64 62.7 ms 94.2 ms 110 ms 0%
Site search 2.59 94.1 ms 187 ms 299 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.55 743 ms 1.06 s 1.17 s 0%
Blog index 2.65 1.8 s 2.33 s 2.6 s 0%
Blog post 7.66 407 ms 664 ms 794 ms 0%
Bread page 7.73 411 ms 682 ms 824 ms 0%
Location page 2.6 401 ms 657 ms 745 ms 0%
Site search 2.54 476 ms 733 ms 923 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.625 97 ms 124 ms 213 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.28 356 ms 392 ms 487 ms 0%
Page editor 1.91 171 ms 226 ms 333 ms 0%
Image library 0.625 68 ms 105 ms 666 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.625 43.2 ms 90.2 ms 95 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.15 234 ms 549 ms 611 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.31 771 ms 1.23 s 1.3 s 0%
Page editor 3.48 359 ms 666 ms 757 ms 0%
Image library 1.15 241 ms 537 ms 684 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.15 108 ms 295 ms 329 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. 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 163 MB, and Redis at 46 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 200 GB NVMe 193.7 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
Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3193 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
193.7 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-51-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
8GB VDS
Product line
Cloud VDS
Location
Piscataway, NJ
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
200 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
10 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
$50.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.074
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 12, 2026, 02:11:31 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
Server created
Oct 12, 2026, 02:11:24 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 02:11:24 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 03:50:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 03:50:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.12
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