Awesome!

[Mary]

Hi, I just wanted to say that this* is great!

Keep up the good work, guys.

[Kieran]

Been great for me too so far. No complaints here.

[pearible]

I have to agree - I've been very please with absolutely every aspect so far!

[daniel]

Granted, I'm only on day 2, but I was convinced I should move over my primary domains when my PHP and SQL benchmarks on this* were slightly outperforming my $150/month VPS. Usually shared web hosts are great with things like static pages, but get crappy with SQL. So far, this* has been quite impressive, but I'll open my own thread once I've been around long enough to know more.

[Jules]

Great to hear, Daniel. It's rare that clients perform benchmarks before moving over

In regards to the performance of PHP and SQL, PHP could technically be faster. Rather than using PHP as a DSO like a huge number of shared webhosts do, we actually run PHP using mod_suphp. I'm not sure if you're aware of the difference between the two, but mod_suphp addresses several pretty significant issues that running as DSO brings with it, and it's really a speed/safety tradeoff. In the benchmarks we've run, the difference is noticeable, but only in the sense that comparing any two numbers would be. We haven't seen any significant performance degradation, nor have our clients, so we believe it's the best choice for us.

As for MySQL, I regularly tweak the MySQL server configuration on each of our servers to obtain the best performance I can. Fortunately, as per your tests, it looks like it's paying off