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DigitalOcean Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Amsterdam 3

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 7, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
50,967
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 42,867 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$6.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    Amsterdam 3
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB SSD
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 7, 2026, 15:53:00 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 9.04 GB/s 3 1.16%
Scale higher is better 8.69 GB/s 3 3.17%
Add higher is better 9.79 GB/s 3 3.66%
Triad higher is better 9.77 GB/s 3 2.75%

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 156/s 3 1.44%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 9,983/s 3 10.5%
SHA-256 higher is better 162 MB/s 3 7.26%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 2.72 GB/s 3 1.85%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.34 GB/s 3 4.6%

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 5.15 ms 3 4.01%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 191/s 3 2.62%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 14.3 ms 3 16.2%
Requests per second, average higher is better 180/s 3 3.82%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 99.4 MB/s (25,450 IOPS) 99.7 MB/s (25,517 IOPS) 199.1 MB/s (50,967 IOPS)
64K 755.4 MB/s (12,086 IOPS) 759.4 MB/s (12,150 IOPS) 1.48 GB/s (24,236 IOPS)
512K 793.9 MB/s (1,587 IOPS) 836.1 MB/s (1,672 IOPS) 1.59 GB/s (3,259 IOPS)
1M 782.8 MB/s (782 IOPS) 834.9 MB/s (834 IOPS) 1.58 GB/s (1,616 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 1.9 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 944 Mbps 1.36 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.24 Gbps 1.47 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.82 Gbps 1.47 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 628 1.59 ms
fdatasync 608 1.65 ms
fsync 322 3.11 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 344 2.91 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 305 3.28 ms
fdatasync 639 1.57 ms
fsync 340 2.94 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 123 8.11 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 320 3.12 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 157 6.36 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 85.6 11.7 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 43.7 22.9 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 22.3 44.9 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 283 3.53 ms
write, close, fsync 310 3.23 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 574,131 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) 1 416 2.16 ms 3.75 ms 5.92 ms 10.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,002 6.87 ms 15.4 ms 24.4 ms 37.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 766 33.4 ms 94.1 ms 155 ms 276 ms 0
Read only 1 18,475 0.049 ms 0.08 ms 0.118 ms 0.514 ms 0
Read only 8 15,198 0.459 ms 0.869 ms 1.16 ms 2.59 ms 0
Read only 32 9,477 2.95 ms 4.02 ms 6.49 ms 23 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.59 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) 1 329 2.74 ms 4.99 ms 8.58 ms 19.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 911 8.25 ms 14.1 ms 19.2 ms 34.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 871 34.8 ms 52.2 ms 64.9 ms 107 ms 0
Read only 1 1,497 0.622 ms 1.29 ms 2.27 ms 4.93 ms 0
Read only 8 5,572 1.3 ms 2.75 ms 4.18 ms 7.24 ms 0
Read only 32 4,079 6.56 ms 13 ms 19.7 ms 35.9 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 36.6 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.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 92.9 1,858 9.73 ms 16.7 ms 27.7 ms 0
Read/write 8 201 4,010 38.2 ms 60 ms 83 ms 0
Read/write 32 231 4,626 132 ms 200 ms 253 ms 0
Read only 1 476 7,613 2 ms 2.97 ms 4.18 ms 0
Read only 8 432 6,904 18.3 ms 23.5 ms 29.2 ms 0
Read only 32 370 5,913 86 ms 107 ms 119 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 34.4 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 21,420 19,472 2.75 ms 7.23 ms 14.5 ms
1:1 set:get 19,291 9,645 3.26 ms 7.36 ms 14.3 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
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 0.419 3.66 s 3.97 s 4 s 0%
Shop page 0.419 4.67 s 5.93 s 6.17 s 0%
Category page 0.377 4.17 s 5.68 s 5.76 s 0%
Product page 0.335 3.68 s 4.29 s 4.3 s 0%
Product search 0.335 3.46 s 3.68 s 3.7 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 0.437 8.21 s 15.6 s 16.1 s 0%
Shop page 0.437 19.2 s 20.6 s 20.8 s 0%
Category page 0.437 17.6 s 20.2 s 20.5 s 0%
Product page 0.437 14.6 s 15.2 s 15.3 s 0%
Product search 0.109 13.8 s 13.9 s 13.9 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 0.727 3.31 s 4.14 s 4.51 s 0%
Cart 0.727 3.59 s 3.98 s 4.27 s 0%
Checkout 0.727 2.67 s 3.09 s 3.13 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 0.896 13 s 16.4 s 17 s 0%
Cart 0.896 14.4 s 16.6 s 16.9 s 0%
Checkout 0.448 11.2 s 12.6 s 12.8 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 71 to 77 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 3% 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
3% 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
Amsterdam 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 7, 2026, 15:56:25 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 7, 2026, 15:53:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 7, 2026, 15:54:42 UTC
Completed
Oct 7, 2026, 17:10:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 7, 2026, 17:10:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.011
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