LightPress http://lightpress.org A fast, template-based frontend for WordPress Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:06:44 GMT http://blogo.it/frontend/ 2.25 million page views on a Celeron http://lightpress.org/post/225-million-page-views-on-a-celeron http://lightpress.org/post/225-million-page-views-on-a-celeron Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:34:43 GMT The most trafficked blogs powered by LightPress are those published by the Italian nanopublishing company Blogo, which I helped found last year and later left. The 15 blogs are housed on an old Celeron 900, and backed by a dual-Xeon MySQL server which is mostly sitting idle thanks to our caching module.

In September, the old Celeron served 2.25 million page views, with a peak rate of 250 page views per minute on September 26 at 11:04:00. If you take into account that every page view involves several image hits (~10), at least one adserver hit (hosted on the same machine), and one stats logging hit (same machine, again), all of them served by a fat Apache, LightPress seems to handle itself pretty well under load.

]]> Poor Man's Benchmark http://lightpress.org/post/poor-mans-benchmark http://lightpress.org/post/poor-mans-benchmark Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:12:34 GMT Just did a series of poor man's benchmarks against beta3, using Apache Benchmark with no concurrent requests (ab -n 100):

vanilla WP 1.5.1

3.90 req/s

LP 1.1.0beta3

11.90 req/s

LP 1.1.0beta3 with cache

119.90 req/s

I am too lazy to install wp-cache, but using Sencer's benchmark to do the math we should be about 50% faster than wp-cache. I will try to find the time to install wp-cache on this machine and have some real numbers, but not before we release beta3.

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