DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (1 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and UpCloud and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:00:28 GMT Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:00:46 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-51-generic 6.8.0-31-generic
MySQL Version 8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version 7.0.15 7.0.15
Location New York, NY New York, NY
Monthly Price $6.00 €7.00
RAM (GB) 1 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 25
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 1 1

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Regular AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,494.14 3,295.42
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 512.00
BogoMips 4,988.27 6,590.83
Events per Second 781.12 5,545.01
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.92 0.16
Average Latency (ms) 1.28 0.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.15 109.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2 0.2

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,900,667.66 8,116,315.82
Mebibytes per second 3,809.25 7,926.09
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.74 0.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,761,798.48 8,051,777.24
Mebibytes per second 3,673.63 7,863.06
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.85 0.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,948.26 3,490.45
Writes per Second 1,298.78 2,326.97
Fsyncs per Second 4,165.03 7,457.19
Read Mebibytes per Second 30.44 54.54
Written Mebibytes per Second 20.29 36.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.13 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.66 51.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.36 0.21

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,456.66 1,116.12
Average Latency (ms) 2,486.28 1,120.39
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,508.28 1,126.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,493.86 1,129.24

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,813.00 11.00
Queries per second 28,130.00 110.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.61 904.19
Average Latency (ms) 3.55 994.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.05 1088.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.09 1089.3

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,303.00 6,076.00
Queries per second 23,030.00 60,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.57 0.59
Average Latency (ms) 4.33 1.64
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.31 89.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 8.13 2.81

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 759.00 463.00
Queries per second 7,590.00 4,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 5.43 1.37
Average Latency (ms) 13.17 21.75
Maximum Latency (ms) 44.46 189.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 23.1 99.33

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,405.00 8,199.00
Queries per second 44,050.00 81,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.86 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 2.26 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.49 106.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.96 1.86

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 835,750.00 2,997,682.00
Queries per second 8,357,500.00 29,976,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 554.15 235.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 87,090.00 707,700.00
Queries per second 870,900.00 7,077,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.01
Average Latency (ms) 0.11 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.78 18.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.28 0.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 82.00 336.00
Queries per second 820.00 3,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 62.94 13.73
Average Latency (ms) 122.64 29.76
Maximum Latency (ms) 189.27 90.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 164.45 41.1

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,110.00 14,920.00
Queries per second 31,100.00 149,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.06 0.2
Average Latency (ms) 3.21 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.7 8.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.74 0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,203.00 6,759.00
Queries per second 32,030.00 67,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.92 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 3.12 1.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 36.64 79.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.99 2.57

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,254.00 9,005.00
Queries per second 52,540.00 90,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.81 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.9 1.11
Maximum Latency (ms) 21.28 107.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 1.67

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,710.00 9,411.00
Queries per second 57,100.00 94,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.01
Average Latency (ms) 1.75 1.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.56 115.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.43 2.03

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 31,645.57 191,570.88
PING_MBULK per Second 32,425.42 188,679.25
SET per Second 32,690.42 178,890.88
GET per Second 35,919.54 185,185.17
INCR per Second 32,776.14 195,694.72
LPUSH per Second 31,036.62 186,915.88
RPUSH per Second 30,349.01 191,570.88
LPOP per Second 30,721.96 193,798.45
RPOP per Second 30,193.24 190,476.20
SADD per Second 35,310.73 198,019.80
HSET per Second 35,855.14 191,570.88
SPOP per Second 35,174.11 189,393.94
ZADD per Second 33,944.33 189,393.94
ZPOPMIN per Second 35,026.27 199,203.20
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 19,102.20 104,602.52
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 8,449.51 45,766.59
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 6,010.34 32,637.08
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 4,945.60 25,125.63
MSET (10 keys) per Second 27,956.39 168,634.06

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB)
PING_INLINE1.040.17
PING_MBULK1.010.17
SET1.010.19
GET0.920.18
INCR1.010.17
LPUSH1.070.18
RPUSH1.080.17
LPOP1.090.17
RPOP1.100.18
SADD0.940.17
HSET0.930.17
SPOP0.940.17
ZADD0.980.18
ZPOPMIN0.940.17
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.900.35
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)4.270.78
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)5.921.10
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)7.231.43
MSET (10 keys)1.260.21

Conclusion

After analyzing the benchmark results from both DigitalOcean's Regular (1 GB) and UpCloud's Balanced (1 GB) instances, it's clear that UpCloud's instance outperforms DigitalOcean's in terms of raw processing power, as evidenced by higher RPS rates for Redis operations and superior CPU event handling. UpCloud's AMD EPYC processor provides significantly better performance in most benchmarks, especially in CPU-intensive tasks and memory operations. However, DigitalOcean's instance shows more consistent latency and slightly better file I/O performance. For developers needing high throughput and low latency for Redis operations or CPU-intensive workloads, UpCloud's Balanced (1 GB) is the better choice. Conversely, if slightly lower processing power but more consistent I/O performance is preferred, DigitalOcean's Regular (1 GB) might be more suitable.

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