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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from UpCloud and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 21 May 2025 09:00:46 GMT Wed, 21 May 2025 09:00:47 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-31-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 €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 1,516.75 1,372.43
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.59
Average Latency (ms) 0.66 0.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.45 109.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.72 0.75

Memory

Memory Read

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,125,857.86 5,008,782.18
Mebibytes per second 5,005.72 4,891.39
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.38 87.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,117,919.14 5,230,118.61
Mebibytes per second 4,997.97 5,107.54
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.32 0.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Reads per Second 2,126.78 2,510.51
Writes per Second 1,417.85 1,673.67
Fsyncs per Second 4,537.52 5,355.95
Read Mebibytes per Second 33.23 39.23
Written Mebibytes per Second 22.15 26.15
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.12 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 52.76 24.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.37 0.35

Mutex

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,745.06 1,757.11
Average Latency (ms) 1,758.67 1,771.26
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,766.79 1,781.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,771.29 1,771.29

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,623.00 6,476.00
Queries per second 56,230.00 64,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.28 1.26
Average Latency (ms) 1.78 1.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 43.01 5.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.43 1.93

MySQL Write-only

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,858.00 3,093.00
Queries per second 28,580.00 30,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.78 1.74
Average Latency (ms) 3.5 3.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 28.79 39.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.99 5.18

MySQL Read/Write

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,429.00 1,833.00
Queries per second 14,290.00 18,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.58 3.27
Average Latency (ms) 6.99 5.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 108.75 132.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 11.45 8.13

MySQL INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,656.00 5,043.00
Queries per second 46,560.00 50,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1 0.99
Average Latency (ms) 2.14 1.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 39.06 58.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 2.97

MySQL Bulk INSERT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,084,592.00 1,230,217.00
Queries per second 10,845,920.00 12,302,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 517.27 414.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 107,819.00 151,952.00
Queries per second 1,078,190.00 1,519,520.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 27.4 1.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.23 0.1

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 141.00 1,769.00
Queries per second 1,410.00 17,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 27.86 1.32
Average Latency (ms) 71.23 5.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 305.49 22.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 137.35 7.56

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,000.00 4,872.00
Queries per second 50,000.00 48,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.74
Average Latency (ms) 2 2.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.6 6.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.57 2.81

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,931.00 4,240.00
Queries per second 29,310.00 42,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.37 1
Average Latency (ms) 3.41 2.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 1996.38 45.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.49 3.82

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,825.00 5,232.00
Queries per second 38,250.00 52,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.31 1.15
Average Latency (ms) 2.61 1.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 2036.89 25.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.07 2.76

MySQL DELETE

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,421.00 5,755.00
Queries per second 54,210.00 57,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 1.84 1.74
Maximum Latency (ms) 73.64 35.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 3.19

Redis

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 30,120.48 42,069.84
PING_MBULK per Second 42,844.90 42,052.14
SET per Second 42,194.09 42,444.82
GET per Second 41,425.02 43,478.26
INCR per Second 42,158.52 44,189.13
LPUSH per Second 33,534.54 43,725.41
RPUSH per Second 41,981.53 43,975.38
LPOP per Second 36,062.03 42,992.26
RPOP per Second 41,305.25 43,233.89
SADD per Second 41,597.34 42,955.32
HSET per Second 42,771.60 40,883.07
SPOP per Second 42,716.79 42,517.01
ZADD per Second 41,407.87 42,535.09
ZPOPMIN per Second 42,808.22 44,523.60
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 27,005.13 27,382.26
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 14,725.37 15,003.75
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,192.64 10,221.81
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 8,893.63 9,305.79
MSET (10 keys) per Second 39,138.94 38,774.72

Redis Average Latency (ms)

UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.830.82
PING_MBULK0.800.81
SET0.820.80
GET0.820.79
INCR0.810.78
LPUSH1.000.79
RPUSH0.810.78
LPOP0.970.80
RPOP0.830.80
SADD0.830.79
HSET0.810.83
SPOP0.800.80
ZADD0.830.81
ZPOPMIN0.800.77
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.311.28
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.482.39
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.533.47
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.053.85
MSET (10 keys)0.900.90

Conclusion

The UpCloud Balanced (1 GB) instance shows strong performance in Redis benchmarks, with high request rates and low latencies, but struggles with more complex Redis operations like LRANGE, which have significantly higher latencies and lower request rates. The Balanced (2 GB) instance, while also performing well in simple Redis operations, shows slightly better results in more complex operations and overall has higher throughput in file I/O and memory operations, indicating better performance in I/O-heavy tasks. The 1 GB instance is ideal for applications requiring high throughput and low latency for simple Redis operations, while the 2 GB instance is better suited for applications needing more RAM and capable of handling more complex Redis commands, as well as I/O-intensive tasks.

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