UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) vs. UpCloud Balanced (2 GB)

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and did some benchmarking. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:00:46 GMT Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:00:46 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-63-generic 6.8.0-63-generic
MySQL Version 8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
Redis Version 7.0.15 7.0.15
Location New York, NY New York, NY
Monthly Price €7.00 €13.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 50
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 1 2

CPU

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD AuthenticAMD
Model Name AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,894.56 2,894.56
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 512.00
BogoMips 5,789.12 5,789.12
Events per Second 1,598.32 1,427.29
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.61
Average Latency (ms) 0.63 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.77 95.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.65 0.7

Memory

Memory Read

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,296,342.95 5,200,188.76
Mebibytes per second 5,172.21 5,078.31
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.66 0.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,303,572.63 5,176,737.76
Mebibytes per second 5,179.27 5,055.41
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.11 0.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Reads per Second 2,673.39 2,494.64
Writes per Second 1,782.23 1,663.09
Fsyncs per Second 5,706.63 5,327.08
Read Mebibytes per Second 41.77 38.98
Written Mebibytes per Second 27.85 25.99
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 29.03 24.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.3 0.34

Mutex

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,591.88 1,713.17
Average Latency (ms) 1,598.83 1,723.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,605.31 1,736.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,618.78 1,739.68

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,419.00 7,354.00
Queries per second 74,190.00 73,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.26 1.25
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 1.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.25 3.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.47 1.52

MySQL Write-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,494.00 3,931.00
Queries per second 44,940.00 39,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.44 1.42
Average Latency (ms) 2.22 2.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 140.18 50.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 3.75

MySQL Read/Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,493.00 2,201.00
Queries per second 24,930.00 22,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.77 3.17
Average Latency (ms) 4.01 4.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 43.94 20.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.37 6.32

MySQL INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,791.00 5,412.00
Queries per second 67,910.00 54,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.09 1.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 1.84
Maximum Latency (ms) 38.69 45.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 2.57

MySQL Bulk INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,171,967.00 1,084,592.00
Queries per second 11,719,670.00 10,845,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 456.94 471.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 177,998.00 175,471.00
Queries per second 1,779,980.00 1,754,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.8 1.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.07 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,899.00 7,681.00
Queries per second 78,990.00 76,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.45 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 1.27 1.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.56 8.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.61 1.7

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,696.00 7,413.00
Queries per second 76,960.00 74,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.48 0.33
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 1.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.7 3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.67 1.76

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,305.00 5,124.00
Queries per second 63,050.00 51,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.89 0.93
Average Latency (ms) 1.59 1.95
Maximum Latency (ms) 94.06 114.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 2.86

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,627.00 5,468.00
Queries per second 66,270.00 54,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.96 0.88
Average Latency (ms) 1.51 1.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 90.52 201.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 2.39

MySQL DELETE

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 61,421.00 43,021.00
Queries per second 614,210.00 430,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.16 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 59.51 43.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.25 1.67

Redis

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 45,085.66 44,782.80
PING_MBULK per Second 45,641.26 45,516.61
SET per Second 44,843.05 44,622.94
GET per Second 45,413.26 45,085.66
INCR per Second 45,433.89 44,822.95
LPUSH per Second 45,433.89 44,583.15
RPUSH per Second 45,248.87 45,065.34
LPOP per Second 43,859.65 44,503.79
RPOP per Second 44,722.72 44,603.03
SADD per Second 45,703.84 45,475.22
HSET per Second 45,045.04 44,563.28
SPOP per Second 46,104.20 45,787.55
ZADD per Second 45,085.66 44,247.79
ZPOPMIN per Second 45,934.77 45,454.54
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 29,222.68 29,180.04
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 15,559.36 15,671.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,643.96 10,761.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,204.71 9,142.44
MSET (10 keys) per Second 40,338.84 40,799.68

Redis Average Latency (ms)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.760.76
PING_MBULK0.750.76
SET0.770.78
GET0.760.77
INCR0.760.77
LPUSH0.760.78
RPUSH0.760.77
LPOP0.790.78
RPOP0.770.78
SADD0.760.76
HSET0.770.78
SPOP0.750.76
ZADD0.770.79
ZPOPMIN0.750.76
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.221.23
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.362.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.463.41
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.004.01
MSET (10 keys)0.870.87

Conclusion

The UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance shows strong performance with high request rates and low latencies in Redis benchmarks, particularly excelling in simple commands like PING and SET, but struggles with more complex operations like LRANGE which require higher memory bandwidth. The Balanced (2 GB) instance, while slightly behind in raw request rates, provides better performance in memory-intensive tasks due to its additional RAM, which is evident in the improved latency for MySQL bulk inserts and overall better handling of larger data sets in Redis commands. The 2 GB instance also offers better file I/O throughput and lower thread latency, making it a better choice for I/O-heavy workloads. For developers needing high CPU performance and low latency for simple tasks, the 1 GB instance is optimal, whereas for those requiring more memory and better I/O performance, the 2 GB instance is the better choice.

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