# DigitalOcean Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

[Amsterdam 3](https://www.rackcensus.com/locations/amsterdam-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Amsterdam")

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

[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=ams3)

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Provider

DigitalOcean

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Plan

Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

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Location

Amsterdam 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 7, 2026, 15:53:00 UTC

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## Latest runs of this plan

- [Frankfurt 1 Oct 7, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/51q17v-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-fra1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Amsterdam 3 Oct 6, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/uov1zx-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-ams3-benchmark)Skipped
- [Frankfurt 1 Oct 6, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/gtg1rz-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-fra1-benchmark)Skipped
- [San Francisco 3 Oct 6, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/mn01sf-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-sfo3-benchmark)Skipped
- [New York 3 Oct 5, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/cgmqz4-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-nyc3-benchmark)Skipped

[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 | 9.04 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 0.419 | 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

| Spec | 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

Tests 35 of 35 done Live output 696 lines

Setup 1 cores, 961.5 MiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 209 MB/s at 4k, 1.69 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.82 Gbit/s send, 1.47 Gbit/s receive, 1 retried 5 of 5Done

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

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

Finish Results saved 1 of 1Done

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