DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB)

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:00:51 GMT	Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-71-generic	6.8.0-71-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1	8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	New York, NY	New York, NY
Monthly Price	$6.00	$12.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	25	50
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	1	2

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Regular	DO-Regular
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,294.61	2,294.61
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	4,096.00
BogoMips	4,589.21	4,589.21
Events per Second	400.42	413.52
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.97	0.97
Average Latency (ms)	2.49	2.4
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.28	50.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.1	3.96

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Operations per second	2,813,048.41	1,314,379.88
Mebibytes per second	2,747.12	1,283.57
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.54	25.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,512,452.98	1,413,871.57
Mebibytes per second	3,430.13	1,380.73
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.23	4.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Reads per Second	1,042.14	1,235.40
Writes per Second	694.76	823.60
Fsyncs per Second	2,223.32	2,647.67
Read Mebibytes per Second	16.28	19.30
Written Mebibytes per Second	10.86	12.87
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.25	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.37	23.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.67	0.6

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	3,641.42	2,536.76
Average Latency (ms)	3,647.14	2,559.27
Maximum Latency (ms)	3,653.88	2,582.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3,639.94	2,585.31

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	4,818.00	4,571.00
Queries per second	48,180.00	45,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.22	1.22
Average Latency (ms)	2.07	2.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	18.08	19.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.76	2.81

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	1,672.00	1,870.00
Queries per second	16,720.00	18,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.74	2.48
Average Latency (ms)	5.98	5.34
Maximum Latency (ms)	44.49	138.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	9.73	9.22

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	1,218.00	1,200.00
Queries per second	12,180.00	12,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.49	4.84
Average Latency (ms)	8.2	8.32
Maximum Latency (ms)	227.81	29.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	11.45	11.24

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,472.00	3,154.00
Queries per second	24,720.00	31,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.08	1.77
Average Latency (ms)	4.04	3.16
Maximum Latency (ms)	55.89	56.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	8.13	4.82

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	800,273.00	669,209.00
Queries per second	8,002,730.00	6,692,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)	739.16	790.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	137,137.00	139,339.00
Queries per second	1,371,370.00	1,393,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.35	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.12

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	3,217.00	3,342.00
Queries per second	32,170.00	33,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.98	0.77
Average Latency (ms)	3.1	2.99
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.52	13.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.25	3.89

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	3,380.00	3,510.00
Queries per second	33,800.00	35,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.53
Average Latency (ms)	2.95	2.85
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.49	6.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.91	4.82

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,400.00	2,781.00
Queries per second	24,000.00	27,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.06	1.83
Average Latency (ms)	4.16	3.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	200.81	150.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.3	5.77

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,524.00	2,643.00
Queries per second	25,240.00	26,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.27	1.81
Average Latency (ms)	3.96	3.78
Maximum Latency (ms)	35.8	45.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.91	8.58

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Transactions per second	17,428.00	19,355.00
Queries per second	174,280.00	193,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.57	0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)	42.4	37.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.19	3.02

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	43,898.15	36,245.02
PING_MBULK per Second	40,816.32	33,101.62
SET per Second	40,371.42	33,377.84
GET per Second	47,483.38	34,650.04
INCR per Second	45,207.96	37,439.16
LPUSH per Second	39,840.64	33,433.64
RPUSH per Second	39,556.96	33,266.80
LPOP per Second	38,387.71	27,337.34
RPOP per Second	41,459.37	30,376.67
SADD per Second	42,337.00	27,292.58
HSET per Second	37,397.16	26,983.27
SPOP per Second	38,080.73	28,066.24
ZADD per Second	34,470.87	27,932.96
ZPOPMIN per Second	36,845.98	27,631.94
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	18,477.46	13,956.73
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,408.50	6,361.73
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	4,996.25	4,290.00
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,416.57	3,645.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second	28,719.13	24,588.15

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.76	0.92
PING_MBULK	0.81	0.98
SET	0.83	1.00
GET	0.69	0.95
INCR	0.73	0.89
LPUSH	0.84	1.00
RPUSH	0.84	1.00
LPOP	0.88	1.22
RPOP	0.82	1.11
SADD	0.79	1.19
HSET	0.90	1.21
SPOP	0.87	1.16
ZADD	0.98	1.19
ZPOPMIN	0.89	1.17
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.94	2.62
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	4.88	5.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	7.06	8.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	7.92	9.58
MSET (10 keys)	1.28	1.47

Conclusion

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Based on the benchmark results, the DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) instance outperforms the Regular (1 GB) instance across a variety of metrics. The 2 GB instance shows higher Redis RPS rates, slightly lower latencies, and greater file I/O throughput and efficiency. The improved RAM capacity likely contributes to these enhancements, offering a more responsive and capable performance for CPU-intensive, memory-demanding, or I/O-heavy workloads, making it ideal for high-performance applications that benefit from additional RAM and computational efficiency.

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