benchmark

I am in the market for a VPS in the $15-$30/mth range, and I've been shopping it around with the help of some feedback I've received from the WebHostingTalk forums. So I came up with a few new benchmarking tests that I haven't seen mentioned before. The results of my benchmarks can be found here: HTML format and Spreadsheet format

The new tests using time+drush+devel I came up with are:

1. time drush generate users 2000 - This test will give you the amount of time it took to create 2000 users on your drupal site
2. time drush generate content 5000 2 - This test will give you the amount of time it took to create 5000 nodes (page,story,book,blog,forum) with 7500 comments
3. time drush generate taxonomy 15 250 - This test will give you the amount of time it took to create 15 vocabulary with 250 terms

mikeytown2 and I hijacked my nginx built-in caching thread for some benchmarking discussions. Mostly Boost vs Varnish vs. Nginx caching. It needs its own thread.

My quick and dirty ab testing on my home "dedicated" server is at http://groups.drupal.org/node/26485#comment-101296 with a couple more using keepalives is at http://groups.drupal.org/node/26485#comment-101518.

Hi All,

I have written a blog on Benchmarking Drupal Websites. Please have a look and leave back your comments.

Please visit the link at
http://www.edrupal.com/blog/benchmarking-drupal-website

Thanks
Vinay Yadav
http://www.vinayras.com

Ran across this 'speedtest' page today, it has interesting results especially cross-browser:

http://mootools.net/slickspeed/

If you run it on FF ( at least on my iMac and a nearby Vista machine ) moo and prototype are much faster, but extjs wins hands down on Safari ( OS X ) and IE7 on Vista. jQuery is middling IMHO the benefits in developer satisfaction are worth the speed cost vs prototype.

Discuss.