Real-workload SQLite benchmarks on Hetzner's cheapest VPS
I ordered the cheapest Hetzner CX23 ($4.99/mo, shared CPU) and ran a real-workload SQLite benchmark with a 6 GB database on 3.7 GB of RAM.
Real-workload SQLite benchmarks on Hetzner's cheapest VPS launched on May 9, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,430 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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I ordered the cheapest Hetzner CX23 ($4.99/mo, shared-resources tier) and ran a real-workload SQLite benchmark on it. Not a microbenchmark — a 6 GB database on a box with 3.7 GB of RAM, so reads actually have to touch disk. journal_mode = WAL synchronous = NORMAL -- safe, not strict-ACID durable page_size = 8192 cache_size = 256 MiB mmap_size = 256 MiB temp_store = MEMORY busy_timeout = 5000 One caveat worth being explicit about: synchronous=NORMAL is not durable in the strict ACID sense . A power loss can roll back the last few committed transactions — whatever was in the WAL but not yet fsync 'd to the main DB file. The database file itself will not corrupt — corruption is what…from s13k.dev
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