# DigitalOcean Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

[New York 3](https://www.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

44,110

fio random read and write, 50/50

Median here: 53,591 over 2 runs in 90 days

Monthly price at test time

$6.00

Same price today

## Server

[DigitalOcean](https://www.rackcensus.com/vps-providers/digitalocean-benchmarks)[Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB](https://www.rackcensus.com/plans/z6r6vs-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-benchmarks?location=nyc3)

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Provider

DigitalOcean

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Plan

Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

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Location

New York 3

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vCPU

1

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RAM

1 GB

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Storage

25 GB SSD

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Network

2 Gbps

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OS image

ubuntu-24-04-x64

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 8, 2026, 08:59:00 UTC

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## Latest runs of this plan

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[Full history of this plan](https://www.rackcensus.com/plans/z6r6vs-digitalocean-basic-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 | 9.45 GB/s | 3 | 1.18% |
| Scale higher is better | 9.33 GB/s | 3 | 1.27% |
| Add higher is better | 12 GB/s | 3 | 1.29% |
| Triad higher is better | 11.6 GB/s | 3 | 1.98% |

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 | 166/s | 3 | 3.31% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 11,122/s | 3 | 6.15% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 165 MB/s | 3 | 2.19% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 2.59 GB/s | 3 | 0.866% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 1.09 GB/s | 3 | 14.4% |

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 | 5.26 ms | 3 | 3.19% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 191/s | 3 | 3.92% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 19.1 ms | 3 | 24.1% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 170/s | 3 | 2.59% |

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

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 86 MB/s (22,026 IOPS) | 86.3 MB/s (22,084 IOPS) | 172.3 MB/s (44,110 IOPS) |
| 64K | 501.3 MB/s (8,020 IOPS) | 503.9 MB/s (8,062 IOPS) | 1005.2 MB/s (16,082 IOPS) |
| 512K | 395.6 MB/s (791 IOPS) | 416.6 MB/s (833 IOPS) | 812.2 MB/s (1,624 IOPS) |
| 1M | 548.4 MB/s (548 IOPS) | 584.9 MB/s (584 IOPS) | 1.11 GB/s (1,132 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 | 1.88 Gbps | 1.8 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 1.84 Gbps | 1.79 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 878 Mbps | 873 Mbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.69 Gbps | 1.72 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.97 Gbps | 1.89 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 | 2,054 | 0.487 ms |
| fdatasync | 1,143 | 0.875 ms |
| fsync | 635 | 1.57 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 795 | 1.26 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 1,016 | 0.985 ms |
| fdatasync | 1,576 | 0.635 ms |
| fsync | 847 | 1.18 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 340 | 2.94 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 713 | 1.4 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 424 | 2.36 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 194 | 5.16 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 90 | 11.1 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 51.2 | 19.5 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 528 | 1.89 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 607 | 1.65 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 569,113 | 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 | 757 | 1.08 ms | 2.3 ms | 4.86 ms | 29.6 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 1,434 | 4.76 ms | 9.54 ms | 15.4 ms | 81.9 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 1,210 | 20.9 ms | 61.7 ms | 111 ms | 220 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 20,785 | 0.044 ms | 0.071 ms | 0.095 ms | 0.411 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 16,005 | 0.435 ms | 0.834 ms | 1.22 ms | 2.56 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 11,444 | 2.51 ms | 3.55 ms | 5.55 ms | 12.8 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.6 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 | 554 | 1.6 ms | 2.63 ms | 5.34 ms | 16.7 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 1,206 | 5.98 ms | 11.1 ms | 18.2 ms | 71.5 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 972 | 30.8 ms | 48.7 ms | 66.9 ms | 123 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 1,672 | 0.534 ms | 1.11 ms | 2.29 ms | 9.48 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 4,858 | 1.35 ms | 3.41 ms | 6.36 ms | 24.2 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 4,767 | 5.68 ms | 11 ms | 17 ms | 51.7 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 38.3 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 | 117 | 2,341 | 7.17 ms | 15 ms | 29.7 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 196 | 3,916 | 35.6 ms | 70.5 ms | 128 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 222 | 4,444 | 135 ms | 215 ms | 267 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 481 | 7,690 | 1.93 ms | 3.02 ms | 4.65 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 466 | 7,458 | 17 ms | 22.3 ms | 29.2 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 421 | 6,739 | 75.8 ms | 97.6 ms | 113 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 31.9 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 23,473 | 21,338 | 2.48 ms | 5.76 ms | 12.7 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 26,424 | 13,212 | 2.24 ms | 5.18 ms | 11.4 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 | 0.444 | 3.18 s | 3.81 s | 4.23 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 0.444 | 4.52 s | 5.08 s | 5.08 s | 0% |
| Category page | 0.444 | 3.69 s | 4.59 s | 4.62 s | 0% |
| Product page | 0.444 | 3.08 s | 3.44 s | 3.51 s | 0% |
| Product search | 0.43 | 2.96 s | 3.22 s | 3.26 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 0.619 | 8.77 s | 12.3 s | 12.4 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 0.45 | 14 s | 15.5 s | 15.5 s | 0% |
| Category page | 0.45 | 13 s | 14.7 s | 14.9 s | 0% |
| Product page | 0.45 | 13.5 s | 13.8 s | 13.9 s | 0% |
| Product search | 0.45 | 12 s | 13.5 s | 13.5 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 0.844 | 2.87 s | 3.75 s | 4.01 s | 0% |
| Cart | 0.844 | 3.01 s | 3.5 s | 3.56 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 0.844 | 2.4 s | 2.79 s | 2.89 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 0.897 | 10.6 s | 14.2 s | 15 s | 0% |
| Cart | 0.897 | 13.5 s | 14.7 s | 14.9 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 0.813 | 10.3 s | 11.9 s | 12.1 s | 0% |

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 71 to 76 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 | 15.5% of busy CPU time stolen |
| RAM | 1 GB | 961 MiB |
| Storage | 25 GB SSD | 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-Regular

**CPU cores:** 1

**CPU frequency:** 2295 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:** 15.5% 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 1 vCPU / 1 GB

**Product line:** Basic

**Location:** New York 3

**vCPU:** 1 shared vCPU

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**RAM:** 1 GB

**Storage:** 25 GB SSD

**Virtualization:** KVM

**Network:** 2 Gbps

**Transfer:** 1 TB

**Port 25:** Closed

**Monthly price at test time:** $6.00

**Hourly price at test time:** $0.0089

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

**Ran at:** Oct 8, 2026, 09:02:32 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 8, 2026, 08:59:00 UTC

**Server created:** Oct 8, 2026, 09:00:39 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 8, 2026, 09:00:39 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 8, 2026, 10:15:00 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 8, 2026, 10:15:00 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.011

Tests 35 of 35 done Live output 698 lines

Setup 1 cores, 961.5 MiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 181 MB/s at 4k, 1.18 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.84 Gbit/s send, 1.79 Gbit/s receive, 2 retried 5 of 5Done

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

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

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