Posted by Tom on 10/09/06 20:15

I'm giving this a bump (I promise only once) just in case it got missed
by any benchmarking gurus over the weekend. :)

Thanks,
Tom


Tom wrote:
> Alternate subject title: Shared Hosting, Resource Usage, Standards and
> Measures
>
> I think of myself as a developer, not a sysadmin, but a couple projects
> I've been working on for my small company (i.e. 3 people) have reached
> a stage where we're ready to move them to a production server and I'm
> overseeing the process.
>
> The plan is to launch them on an affordable shared hosting plan to
> start and move on to VPS and dedicated hosting as necessary as they
> grow. I'm trying to take every precaution possible in running my
> scripts efficiently and responsibly on a shared host, but after months
> of research, I still have only a vague sense of how to accurately
> benchmark a PHP script for a live environment.
>
> One tool I've been playing with is the PHP memory_get_usage function.
> I find that usage jumps from 28 MB from the beginning of a
> representative PHP-scripted web page on our development server (before
> our includes and libraries load and any database hits) to 34 MB at the
> end of the page. An admin with the company with which we're hosting
> told me that they automatically kill any scripts using over 200 MB. So
> I'm inferring that this script is running well within reasonable
> limits. But I'm not sure if I'm getting an accurate -- or even the
> right type of -- measurement here.
>
> Is this a reasonable conclusion? How do others address this issue?
> Any help (e.g. links) someone could offer on this topic generally is
> welcome.
>
> Tom
> http://phosphorusandlime.blogspot.com/2006/10/php-get-memory-usage.html

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