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DigitalOcean Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Frankfurt 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 8, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
71,210
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 48,421 over 3 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$6.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    Frankfurt 1
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB SSD
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 8, 2026, 09:54:00 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 9.79 GB/s 3 3.73%
Scale higher is better 9.37 GB/s 3 4.3%
Add higher is better 10.4 GB/s 3 4.67%
Triad higher is better 10.6 GB/s 3 3.34%

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 172/s 3 3.47%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 11,945/s 3 1.63%
SHA-256 higher is better 207 MB/s 3 2.17%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 2.89 GB/s 3 10.8%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.36 GB/s 3 6.69%

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 4.9 ms 3 2.61%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 203/s 3 2.05%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 11.7 ms 3 4.76%
Requests per second, average higher is better 191/s 3 2.77%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 138.9 MB/s (35,558 IOPS) 139.3 MB/s (35,652 IOPS) 278.2 MB/s (71,210 IOPS)
64K 1.07 GB/s (17,589 IOPS) 1.08 GB/s (17,682 IOPS) 2.15 GB/s (35,271 IOPS)
512K 745.8 MB/s (1,491 IOPS) 785.4 MB/s (1,570 IOPS) 1.5 GB/s (3,061 IOPS)
1M 767.3 MB/s (767 IOPS) 818.4 MB/s (818 IOPS) 1.55 GB/s (1,585 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 1.98 Gbps 1.87 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 2 Gbps 1.89 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.1 Gbps 1.24 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 913 Mbps 1.32 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.55 Gbps 1.58 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 7,554 0.132 ms
fdatasync 7,278 0.137 ms
fsync 4,511 0.222 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,736 0.211 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 3,393 0.295 ms
fdatasync 5,329 0.188 ms
fsync 4,468 0.224 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,954 0.512 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 4,548 0.22 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,524 0.396 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,237 0.808 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 512 1.95 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 284 3.52 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 4,137 0.242 ms
write, close, fsync 4,130 0.242 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 634,058 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 1,578 0.567 ms 1.03 ms 1.85 ms 4.24 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,578 4.57 ms 8.79 ms 13.3 ms 22.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,224 21.6 ms 56.3 ms 91.7 ms 149 ms 0
Read only 1 23,383 0.039 ms 0.066 ms 0.088 ms 0.292 ms 0
Read only 8 19,043 0.372 ms 0.703 ms 0.893 ms 2 ms 0
Read only 32 11,682 2.44 ms 3.29 ms 4.88 ms 6.84 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.8 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) 1 788 1.12 ms 2.12 ms 3.79 ms 8.44 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,207 6 ms 10.9 ms 16.1 ms 31.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 994 30.5 ms 45.2 ms 55.7 ms 80.8 ms 0
Read only 1 2,153 0.417 ms 0.913 ms 1.71 ms 3.73 ms 0
Read only 8 5,741 1.2 ms 2.9 ms 4.65 ms 8.81 ms 0
Read only 32 4,621 5.9 ms 11.4 ms 15.7 ms 24.7 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 27.7 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 1 225 4,506 4.03 ms 7.17 ms 12.1 ms 0
Read/write 8 275 5,508 27.2 ms 45 ms 57.9 ms 0
Read/write 32 264 5,277 115 ms 180 ms 223 ms 0
Read only 1 611 9,774 1.55 ms 2.31 ms 3.43 ms 0
Read only 8 586 9,378 13.2 ms 18.6 ms 22.3 ms 0
Read only 32 505 8,084 62.2 ms 83 ms 94.1 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 20.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 22,606 20,551 2.61 ms 6.21 ms 10.9 ms
1:1 set:get 21,959 10,979 2.58 ms 8.9 ms 13.4 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
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 0.635 2.23 s 2.78 s 3.07 s 0%
Shop page 0.635 2.99 s 3.53 s 3.56 s 0%
Category page 0.635 2.65 s 3.25 s 3.48 s 0%
Product page 0.635 2.26 s 2.59 s 2.63 s 0%
Product search 0.635 2.12 s 2.4 s 2.44 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 0.902 10.3 s 12.5 s 12.5 s 0%
Shop page 0.592 11.8 s 13.3 s 13.4 s 0%
Category page 0.451 10.9 s 12.6 s 12.8 s 0%
Product page 0.451 9.3 s 9.68 s 9.71 s 0%
Product search 0.451 9.67 s 10.6 s 10.7 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 0.971 2.37 s 3 s 3.37 s 0%
Cart 0.971 2.52 s 2.9 s 3.21 s 0%
Checkout 0.971 1.95 s 2.35 s 2.38 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 1.35 8.22 s 10.5 s 10.8 s 0%
Cart 1.24 9.85 s 10.4 s 10.7 s 0%
Checkout 0.902 7.97 s 10 s 10.1 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 65 to 74 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 4.2% 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
2494 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
4.2% 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
Frankfurt 1
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, 09:57:54 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 8, 2026, 09:54:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 8, 2026, 09:55:32 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 8, 2026, 09:55:32 UTC
Completed
Oct 8, 2026, 11:08:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 8, 2026, 11:08:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.011
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