(posted at 10:07PM GMT)
journal.terryfroy.com is now hosted on the dedicated webserver/database cluster which will soon be the home of all spilsby.net shared hosting customers.
The boxes are very high spec with SSD-based storage rather than conventional hard disk storage; as a result, there is very little latency between a request being received and a request being answered.
All web requests are served via nginx rather than Apache as nginx is heavily geared towards performance; while Apache is a more common webserver, the performance provided isn't all that hot compared to some of the other offerings out there.
PHP is now 5.3.x rather than 5.1.x; meaning that the entire catalogue of PHP functions is now supported and also allows access to both PHP acceleration and FastCGI process management functionality without excessive process spawning which suPHP performs and the memory usage which mod_php causes.
In short, it blows the socks off any other conventional web host and I would be very interested to see benchmarks from anyone who would care to argue with that. |