natbox.io

Measured, not promised

natbox performance, measured

Real results from a Box server on 30 October 2026, on a quiet host. Busy neighbours can change them, so run your own tests on a free trial.

559 events a second

CPU, one thread (sysbench, AMD EPYC)

About 13,000 MiB/s

Memory write (sysbench)

About 2,200 IOPS in total

Disk, random 4K read and write

About 100 MB/s

Disk, sequential write

46 to 57 Mbit/s on a 100 Mbit/s plan

Download from Hetzner in Germany

Test the network from your own computer:
$ ping 5.189.155.145
$ curl -o /dev/null \
  https://natbox.io/test/100mb.bin

Live uptime for every service is public at status.natbox.io.

Our published measurements

We measure our own servers and publish the method, the numbers and their limits.

How fast a new server is ready

From order to SSH, measured on real orders.

Why a new server took two minutes

A slow order, traced step by step, and the fix.

Kernel update restart report

How long the hosts and customer servers were down for a security update.

Faster disk writes

What the disks can do, and the trade-off we chose.

Why a NAT VPS can cost $1

What sharing an IPv4 address saves, in numbers.

Load test of the shared HTTPS proxy

What ports 80 and 443 can take.

Ready when you are.

Spin up your first server for $1, or try one free for a month.

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