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DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Amsterdam 3

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
57,173
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
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Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    Amsterdam 3
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB NVMe
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 11, 2026, 23:09:00 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 26.3 GB/s 3 1.6%
Scale higher is better 17 GB/s 3 2.13%
Add higher is better 19.3 GB/s 3 1.62%
Triad higher is better 19.7 GB/s 3 3.7%

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 201/s 3 4.2%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 12,880/s 3 5.94%
SHA-256 higher is better 615 MB/s 3 4.18%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.16 GB/s 3 0.877%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.65 GB/s 3 3.43%

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 4.63 ms 3 3.92%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 215/s 3 3.17%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 9.97 ms 3 10.3%
Requests per second, average higher is better 208/s 3 4.65%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 111.5 MB/s (28,549 IOPS) 111.8 MB/s (28,624 IOPS) 223.3 MB/s (57,173 IOPS)
64K 811.2 MB/s (12,979 IOPS) 815.5 MB/s (13,047 IOPS) 1.59 GB/s (26,026 IOPS)
512K 590.8 MB/s (1,181 IOPS) 622.1 MB/s (1,244 IOPS) 1.18 GB/s (2,425 IOPS)
1M 215.8 MB/s (215 IOPS) 230.1 MB/s (230 IOPS) 445.9 MB/s (445 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 2 Gbps 1.89 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 2 Gbps 1.89 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.04 Gbps 1.19 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.24 Gbps 1.32 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.69 Gbps 1.59 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 4,404 0.227 ms
fdatasync 4,442 0.225 ms
fsync 1,859 0.538 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,719 0.582 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,137 0.468 ms
fdatasync 3,574 0.28 ms
fsync 1,626 0.615 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,151 0.869 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,149 0.465 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,237 0.808 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 674 1.48 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 344 2.91 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 156 6.42 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,183 0.458 ms
write, close, fsync 1,950 0.513 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 483,144 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 1,542 0.599 ms 0.849 ms 1.4 ms 3.31 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,157 3.38 ms 6.06 ms 8.44 ms 15.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,816 14.3 ms 39.3 ms 62.9 ms 93.4 ms 0
Read only 1 19,786 0.045 ms 0.072 ms 0.097 ms 0.265 ms 0
Read only 8 21,221 0.316 ms 0.598 ms 0.776 ms 1.58 ms 0
Read only 32 20,519 1.3 ms 2.03 ms 2.73 ms 4.27 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.32 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) 1 731 1.23 ms 2.21 ms 4.48 ms 9.77 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,423 4.81 ms 9.8 ms 16.9 ms 56.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,373 22 ms 34.9 ms 45 ms 67.8 ms 0
Read only 1 2,487 0.388 ms 0.671 ms 1.42 ms 2.47 ms 0
Read only 8 6,965 1.05 ms 2.13 ms 3.15 ms 4.71 ms 0
Read only 32 6,792 3.91 ms 7.75 ms 10.5 ms 15.3 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 23.9 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 1 207 4,131 4.41 ms 7.84 ms 15.3 ms 0
Read/write 8 331 6,614 22.7 ms 36.2 ms 48.3 ms 0
Read/write 32 319 6,388 94.1 ms 153 ms 190 ms 0
Read only 1 658 10,529 1.42 ms 2.07 ms 2.66 ms 0
Read only 8 672 10,751 11.7 ms 14.7 ms 17.6 ms 0
Read only 32 589 9,422 53.9 ms 68.1 ms 75.8 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 19.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 29,382 26,711 2.04 ms 4.29 ms 6.53 ms
1:1 set:get 27,491 13,745 2.08 ms 4.64 ms 7.46 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 183 728 1,198 3.25 s
Express express-postgresjs 5,592 5,789 9,837 1.56 s
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,767 7,756 10,775 1.47 s
NestJS nestjs 1,629 2,033 6,163 242 ms
Nuxt nuxt 3,559 5,557 9,603 4.17 s
FastAPI fastapi 1,305 1,668 6,232 640 ms
Django django-postgresql 722 827 1,888 442 ms
Rails rails 1,102 1,500 5,002 458 ms
Laravel laravel 301 310 600 1.05 s
Symfony symfony 367 412 1,191 854 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 0.882 1.65 s 1.85 s 1.86 s 0%
Shop page 0.882 2.08 s 2.45 s 2.47 s 0%
Category page 0.882 1.96 s 2.48 s 2.58 s 0%
Product page 0.882 1.68 s 1.89 s 1.97 s 0%
Product search 0.882 1.51 s 1.79 s 1.94 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 0.922 5.78 s 7.01 s 7.1 s 0%
Shop page 0.922 8.06 s 9.02 s 9.19 s 0%
Category page 0.922 7.66 s 8.78 s 9.04 s 0%
Product page 0.922 6.36 s 6.89 s 6.99 s 0%
Product search 0.922 5.91 s 6.27 s 6.29 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 1.77 1.51 s 1.97 s 2.14 s 0%
Cart 1.77 1.59 s 1.91 s 2 s 0%
Checkout 1.77 1.27 s 1.62 s 1.7 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 1.81 6.1 s 7.71 s 7.82 s 0%
Cart 1.78 6.88 s 7.74 s 7.81 s 0%
Checkout 1.36 5.45 s 6.2 s 6.28 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 63 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 0.957 312 ms 635 ms 2.7 s 0%
Topic JSON 0.487 157 ms 536 ms 743 ms 0%
Home page 0.487 277 ms 2.09 s 3.08 s 0%
Categories page 0.243 317 ms 674 ms 816 ms 0%
User activity page 0.243 203 ms 991 ms 1.91 s 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 0.954 1.46 s 3.16 s 4.69 s 0%
Topic JSON 0.502 1.07 s 2.58 s 4.26 s 0%
Home page 0.485 1.42 s 2.23 s 3.33 s 0%
Categories page 0.259 1.6 s 4.93 s 5.17 s 0%
User activity page 0.259 1.12 s 1.89 s 2.46 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 0.613 1.96 s 3.71 s 10.9 s 0%
Topic JSON 0.314 1.68 s 2.47 s 5.87 s 0%
Home page 0.299 2.18 s 3.2 s 4.79 s 0%
Categories page 0.173 2.35 s 8.1 s 11.8 s 0%
User activity page 0.157 2.13 s 4.27 s 4.88 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 14.9 272 ms 610 ms 926 ms 5.08%
Topic JSON 7.5 273 ms 612 ms 892 ms 4.72%
Home page 7.47 274 ms 622 ms 964 ms 5.82%
Categories page 3.72 291 ms 634 ms 1.19 s 3.46%
User activity page 3.75 467 ms 1.08 s 3.58 s 4.29%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 64 s per level, after a 27 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 2 app workers and 128 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 1 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and used up to 966 MB of it. The container peaked at 718 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 4.38 56.7 ms 102 ms 249 ms 0%
Post page 10.9 31.7 ms 54.6 ms 102 ms 0%
Tag page 2.2 40.7 ms 64.9 ms 92.8 ms 0%
Author page 2.18 40.9 ms 79.5 ms 158 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.18 47.5 ms 74.8 ms 184 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 4.46 210 ms 400 ms 438 ms 0%
Post page 11.1 156 ms 315 ms 388 ms 0%
Tag page 2.23 136 ms 292 ms 367 ms 0%
Author page 2.25 137 ms 243 ms 404 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.21 150 ms 286 ms 340 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 3.71 981 ms 1.98 s 2.13 s 0%
Post page 9.28 836 ms 1.79 s 2.53 s 0%
Tag page 1.84 503 ms 1.11 s 1.85 s 0%
Author page 1.84 518 ms 908 ms 1.23 s 0%
RSS feed 1.84 530 ms 1.06 s 1.93 s 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Failed: k6 summary at 1 virtual users didn't parse: k6 recorded no requests for step admin_posts

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. 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 208 MB and MySQL at 541 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.36 100 ms 125 ms 144 ms 0%
Blog index 1.36 327 ms 417 ms 465 ms 0%
Blog post 4.05 30.6 ms 47.1 ms 54.6 ms 0%
Bread page 4.07 33.3 ms 43.1 ms 53.5 ms 0%
Location page 1.36 32 ms 42.4 ms 48.9 ms 0%
Site search 1.34 53.4 ms 102 ms 125 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.08 518 ms 678 ms 764 ms 0%
Blog index 1.13 1.64 s 2.02 s 2.09 s 0%
Blog post 3.24 147 ms 231 ms 289 ms 0%
Bread page 3.28 161 ms 213 ms 244 ms 0%
Location page 1.13 154 ms 199 ms 203 ms 0%
Site search 1.08 250 ms 396 ms 448 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 0.979 1.9 s 2.68 s 2.97 s 0%
Blog index 1.01 4.67 s 5.65 s 6.62 s 0%
Blog post 2.97 1.13 s 1.77 s 1.94 s 0%
Bread page 2.95 1.08 s 1.7 s 1.93 s 0%
Location page 0.995 1.04 s 1.62 s 1.77 s 0%
Site search 0.995 1.21 s 2 s 2.43 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.494 108 ms 138 ms 152 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.01 479 ms 598 ms 698 ms 0%
Page editor 1.5 221 ms 339 ms 415 ms 0%
Image library 0.494 79.2 ms 94.6 ms 813 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.494 43.7 ms 87.8 ms 106 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.409 628 ms 848 ms 871 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.883 2.34 s 2.71 s 2.75 s 0%
Page editor 1.29 1.08 s 1.5 s 1.86 s 0%
Image library 0.409 569 ms 735 ms 813 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.409 222 ms 449 ms 459 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 311 MB, Postgres at 176 MB, and Redis at 24 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 961 MiB
Storage 25 GB NVMe 24.1 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
DO-Premium-AMD
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
1996 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
961 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
24.1 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% 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
Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Basic AMD
Location
Amsterdam 3
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
25 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
1 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$7.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.010
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 11, 2026, 23:12:08 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 11, 2026, 23:09:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 11, 2026, 23:10:22 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 00:43:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 00:43:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.016
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