Date: 05/19/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php, templates, mysql, sql, linux, apache

I don't know why I never thought to do it before, but I put some benchmarking code into my CMS project today (PluggedOut CMS) - and was somewhat astounded at how quickly it's throwing pages back at me.

For an "un-cached" page, it's throwing things back in around 0.004 seconds, which I thought was damn fast... but get this - if I cache the page (so it doesn't have to bother building it from templates etc...) - it took just under 0.0004 seconds on average.

I don't know of a better advert for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP quite frankly.

For those interested, the testing is on a Athlon 64 3200 (2.8Ghz), with 1Gb RAM, and a 160Gb HDD. It has Mandrake X64 on it.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/299782.html