SHEET 005 · BENCHMARKS · 90-DAY FLEET TELEMETRY · REV. D HARDWARE

Performance: measured, not claimed

Sampled hourly across the fleet and averaged over the last 90 days. The same numbers feed the status page exports, the console graphs and the delisting rule: a host that drifts past the oversubscription cap stops being sold.

2,240Geekbench 6 single-core, EPYC 9354P

1.6%CPU steal p95, fair-share

90daysof telemetry behind every number

01 — Versus the market

Three comparisons that settle most arguments

Ours on the left, a previous hardware generation and a typical budget VPS on the right. Same workload, same script, same hour.

Geekbench 6 · single-core

2,240

AMD EPYC 9354P @ 3.80 GHz boost

Previous EPYC generation1,674

Typical budget VPS1,021

4K random read · QD32 · IOPS

512,000

Monolith-class Gen4 RAID-10; every plan is NVMe

SATA SSD96,000

Network block storage16,000

CPU steal · 95th percentile

1.6%

fair-share — dedicated cores measure 0.0%

Dedicated core (1:1)0.0%

Industry budget tier11.8%

02 — By plan

What each size scores

Single-core is the same across the fleet — one EPYC core is one EPYC core. Multi-core and IOPS scale with what you buy. All figures from a reference host on a quiet Sunday.

Plan	vCPU	GB6 single	GB6 multi	4K random read IOPS	12-month rate
I Nano	1 × EPYC	2,180	2,180	96,000	€1.90/mo
II Micro	2 × EPYC	2,180	4,210	128,000	€3.10/mo
III Base· most chosen	4 × EPYC	2,240	8,060	186,000	€5.50/mo
IV Work	6 × EPYC	2,240	11,740	224,000	€10.40/mo
V Forge	8 × EPYC	2,310	15,380	312,000	€18.90/mo
VI Anvil	12 × EPYC	2,310	21,620	428,000	€35.90/mo
VII Monolith	16 × EPYC	2,310	27,940	512,000	€67.90/mo

Geekbench 6 figures are single-run samples on Debian 13, kernel 6.12, nothing else running.
IOPS are 4K random read at QD32 against the plan's NVMe allocation on RAID-10.
Windows Server scores within 1–3% of Linux on the same hardware; the licence adds €11.00 or €12.50 per month.

03 — The host

One build, every site

A benchmark in Frankfurt is a benchmark in São Paulo. If a site drifts, we fix the site, not the benchmark.

CPU

AMD EPYC 9354P · 3.80 GHz boost

Memory

384 GB DDR5-4800 ECC per host

Storage

Samsung PM9A3 Gen4 NVMe, RAID-10

Network

2 × 25 GbE LACP to separate leaves

Power

A+B feeds, 72 h diesel autonomy

Hypervisor

KVM on Linux 6.12 LTS

Oversubscription

3:1 fair-share · 1:1 dedicated

04 — Run it yourself

Your server, your benchmark, your numbers

Spin up any plan and run the same suite. Geekbench 6's Linux CLI is free; fio ships with every distro we offer.

If your numbers land more than 5% below the published figures within the refund window, the 72-hour refund is the fastest way to be right about it — no form, no reason field. Outside the window, tickets land in about twelve minutes and we will chase the host with you.

# Geekbench 6 — download the free Linux CLI from geekbench.com
curl -L -O https://www.geekbench.com/download/linux/Geekbench-6.4.0-Linux.tar.gz
tar xzf Geekbench-6.4.0-Linux.tar.gz
./Geekbench-6.4.0-linux/geekbench6

# 4K random read, 30 seconds, your real disk
fio --name=randread --rw=randread --bs=4k --iodepth=32 --size=1G --runtime=30

# CPU steal — watch the st column for two minutes
mpstat 2 60

05 — Performance questions

The six we get most

Asked in tickets, in journal comments and on every benchmark post — answered once, here, in plain language.

How can it be this cheap and still this fast?

We own the hardware, sell only long terms, and have no sales team. Oversubscription is capped at 3:1 on fair-share plans and 1:1 on dedicated cores; hosts that drift past the cap stop being sold until fixed. Cheap and fast are both policies, not accidents.

Fair-share versus dedicated — what should I expect?

Fair-share: p95 CPU steal 1.6% across the fleet, and the 3:1 cap means the noisiest neighbour you can get is still quieter than the average budget VPS. Dedicated adds 55% to the plan price and takes steal to 0.0% — the core is yours. Game servers and latency-sensitive workloads should buy dedicated; almost everything else is fine on fair-share.

How much CPU steal is normal?

Industry budget tier runs around 11.8% p95 steal — you can watch your own CPU vanish. Our fair-share fleet sits at 1.6% p95, dedicated at 0.0%. The number is published every 90 days because the alternative is discovering it in your graphs at 3 a.m.

Are backups included, or do I pay for safety?

Two manual snapshots are free on every plan, with self-service restore. Scheduled backups cost extra — weekly is +10% of the plan, daily +20% — because off-host storage is not free for us either. The restore runbook is on the help page.

Can I resize mid-term?

Yes — extra vCPUs, memory and NVMe apply within minutes and are billed proportionally for the rest of the term, once. Downscaling or moving between the seven sizes waits for renewal, and the renewal rate is never higher than the current one.

Windows, seriously?

Seriously. Windows Server 2022 and 2025 run on the same Genoa hosts with the same NVMe, licence included for €11.00 or €12.50 per month. Benchmarks within a couple of percent of Linux. Remote desktop over the VNC console works before the OS even boots, which Windows administrators will appreciate.

Benchmark it, then decide

The fastest way to distrust our numbers is to run your own. The second fastest is the 72-hour refund.

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