Webserver: Apache 2.0.40 w/ mod_php OS : RedHat 9 (Plesk) Server : Intel Celeron 1.7GHz 512M RAM Benchmarks where run using 'ab' the Apache Benchmark. e.g. 'ab -n200 -c1 -dS -H'Accept-Encoding: x-gzip' http://lostinlouisville.com/blog/' THELOCUST.ORG (fast PHP site) LOUISVILLESOARING.ORG (slow PostNuke PHP site) LOSTINLOUISVILLE.COM (fast BLOGGER static site) NO CACHE Concurrency Level: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Time taken for tests: 25.343285 seconds 25.93344 seconds 25.192349 seconds 127.811092 seconds 136.193972 seconds 129.141532 seconds 0.474937 seconds 0.475149 seconds 0.479340 seconds Complete requests: 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 Failed requests: 195 191 192 196 195 179 0 0 0 Write errors: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total transferred: 7087865 bytes 7087550 bytes 7087864 bytes 1668177 bytes 1676554 bytes 1669839 bytes 11446200 bytes 11446200 bytes 11446200 bytes HTML transferred: 7046665 bytes 7046350 bytes 7046664 bytes 1577035 bytes 1584954 bytes 1578697 bytes 11390200 bytes 11390200 bytes 11390200 bytes Requests per second: 7.89 [#/sec] (mean) 7.97 [#/sec] (mean) 7.94 [#/sec] (mean) 1.56 [#/sec] (mean) 1.47 [#/sec] (mean) 1.55 [#/sec] (mean) 421.11 [#/sec] (mean) 420.92 [#/sec] (mean) 417.24 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 126.716 [ms] (mean) 125.467 [ms] (mean) 125.962 [ms] (mean) 639.055 [ms] (mean) 680.970 [ms] (mean) 645.708 [ms] (mean) 2.375 [ms] (mean) 2.376 [ms] (mean) 2.397 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 126.716 [ms] (mean, 125.467 [ms] (mean, 125.962 [ms] (mean, 639.055 [ms] (mean, 680.970 [ms] (mean, 645.708 [ms] (mean, 2.375 [ms] (mean, acr 2.376 [ms] (mean, acr 2.397 [ms] (mean, acr Transfer rate: 273.09 [Kbytes/sec] 275.81 [Kbytes/sec] 274.73 [Kbytes/sec] 12.75 [Kbytes/sec] 12.02 [Kbytes/sec] 12.62 [Kbytes/sec] 23533.65 [Kbytes/sec] 23523.15 [Kbytes/sec] 23317.48 [Kbytes/sec] TURCK MMCACHE Concurrency Level: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Time taken for tests: 23.779138 seconds 22.281154 seconds 22.284366 seconds 69.877243 seconds 73.217014 seconds 69.858500 seconds 0.480530 seconds 0.478779 seconds 0.505612 seconds Complete requests: 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 Failed requests: 195 189 180 197 199 184 0 0 0 Write errors: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total transferred: 7087620 bytes 7087490 bytes 7087862 bytes 1678323 bytes 1678029 bytes 1678018 bytes 11342000 bytes 11342000 bytes 11342000 bytes HTML transferred: 7046420 bytes 7046290 bytes 7046662 bytes 1586723 bytes 1586429 bytes 1586418 bytes 11286000 bytes 11286000 bytes 11286000 bytes Requests per second: 8.41 [#/sec] (mean) 8.98 [#/sec] (mean) 8.97 [#/sec] (mean) 2.86 [#/sec] (mean) 2.73 [#/sec] (mean) 2.86 [#/sec] (mean) 416.21 [#/sec] (mean) 417.73 [#/sec] (mean) 395.56 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 118.896 [ms] (mean) 111.406 [ms] (mean) 111.422 [ms] (mean) 349.386 [ms] (mean) 366.085 [ms] (mean) 349.292 [ms] (mean) 2.403 [ms] (mean) 2.394 [ms] (mean) 2.528 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 118.896 [ms] (mean, 111.406 [ms] (mean, 111.422 [ms] (mean, 349.386 [ms] (mean, 366.085 [ms] (mean, 349.292 [ms] (mean, 2.403 [ms] (mean, acr 2.394 [ms] (mean, acr 2.528 [ms] (mean, acr Transfer rate: 291.05 [Kbytes/sec] 310.62 [Kbytes/sec] 310.58 [Kbytes/sec] 23.44 [Kbytes/sec] 22.37 [Kbytes/sec] 23.45 [Kbytes/sec] 23049.55 [Kbytes/sec] 23133.85 [Kbytes/sec] 21906.12 [Kbytes/sec]