KVM-4 VPS on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X.
Geekbench 6 scales its scores so that an Intel Core i7-12700 desktop scores 2,500. Per core, our KVM-4 is about 15% faster. Full Geekbench result.
NVMe that keeps up.
fio, mixed 50/50 read and write. Small 4k blocks show how quickly a database can work. Large blocks show raw throughput. Figures in brackets are operations per second (IOPS).
| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4k blocks | 911 MB/s (222.4k) | 913 MB/s (223.0k) | 1.82 GB/s (445.4k) |
| 64k blocks | 4.65 GB/s (71.0k) | 4.68 GB/s (71.4k) | 9.33 GB/s (142.4k) |
| 512k blocks | 4.21 GB/s (8.0k) | 4.44 GB/s (8.4k) | 8.65 GB/s (16.5k) |
| 1m blocks | 3.95 GB/s (3.7k) | 4.21 GB/s (4.0k) | 8.16 GB/s (7.7k) |
10 Gbps, with short hops to Europe.
iperf3 over IPv4 from our Newcastle data centre to public test servers. Speeds also depend on how busy each test server is at the time. The New York ping is from the IPv6 test.
| To | Send | Receive | Ping |
|---|---|---|---|
| London, UK | 3.84 Gbps | 6.39 Gbps | 7.1 ms |
| Amsterdam, NL | 8.28 Gbps | 7.72 Gbps | 13.2 ms |
| New York, US | 2.63 Gbps | 5.01 Gbps | 74.5 ms |
| Los Angeles, US | 1.31 Gbps | 1.56 Gbps | 135 ms |
| Tashkent, UZ | 1.79 Gbps | 2.23 Gbps | 97.5 ms |
| Singapore, SG | 706 Mbps | 3.18 Gbps | 168 ms |
A fresh WordPress site, tested.
A new site on our 1 Site Managed WordPress plan, with the default Twenty Twenty-Five theme and LiteSpeed Cache switched on. Tested from a UK home broadband connection, over Wi-Fi. Times are measured from the router onwards, so they don’t include the Wi-Fi inside the house.
First-byte times include setting up a new secure connection, which is most of the time. Once connected, cached pages came back in about 17 ms, the same as the network round trip, so the server added almost nothing.
Under load
| Visitors | Pages a second | Pages in 20 s | Typical response | Slowest 1% | Errors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 at once | 444 | 8,886 | 17 ms | 22 ms | 0 |
| 25 at once | 1,092 | 21,830 | 17 ms | 24 ms | 0 |
| 50 at once | 1,978 | 39,563 | 19 ms | 33 ms | 0 |
| 100 at once | 2,976 | 59,498 | 26 ms | 53 ms | 0 |
| 200 at once | 3,577 | 71,533 | 48 ms | 92 ms | 0 |
Each step ran for 20 seconds against the cached home page. From 10 to 200 visitors at once, pages a second rose from 444 to 3,577, and every request succeeded.
Don’t take our word for it.
Order a VPS from £6.99/mo, log in and run YABS. It takes about 15 minutes. If it doesn’t match up, our 30-day money-back guarantee has you covered.
curl -sL https://yabs.sh | bash- An ordinary KVM-4 (2 vCPU, 4 GB DDR5), ordered like any customer’s
- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, YABS v2026-10-31, run minutes after first boot
- Nothing tuned or switched off for the test
- WordPress on a standard 1 Site Managed WordPress plan
- All tests run on 9 November 2026
Benchmark questions.
What is YABS?
Yet-Another-Bench-Script is a free, open-source benchmark that VPS buyers use to compare providers. It tests disk speed with fio, network speed with iperf3 and the processor with Geekbench, so results are easy to compare with other hosts.
Why did you test a KVM-4?
It’s one of our most popular sizes, and an ordinary one: we ordered it like any customer and ran the test a few minutes after it booted. Nothing was tuned for the test.
Will my VPS be as fast?
The processor speed per core is the same on every size, because every VPS runs on the same AMD Ryzen 9 9950X servers with guaranteed CPU and memory. Bigger plans get more cores, so their multi-core scores are higher. Disk and network results vary a little from run to run, as they do with any host.
How does 2,885 compare with other servers?
Geekbench 6 sets its scale so that an Intel Core i7-12700 desktop scores 2,500. Our KVM-4 scored 2,885 per core, about 15% faster. You can see the full Geekbench result.
Was the WordPress test on a VPS?
No. It was a fresh site on our 1 Site Managed WordPress plan, with the default Twenty Twenty-Five theme and LiteSpeed Cache switched on. See Managed WordPress.
What does “visitors at once” mean?
It’s how many requests were open at the same moment during each 20-second test. Each one asked for the home page again as soon as the last answer arrived, so 200 at once is far busier than 200 real people browsing.
Can I run the tests myself?
Yes. Order a VPS, run the command on this page, and compare. If you’re not happy within 30 days, we’ll refund you in full.
Try it on your own server.
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