[Scott]

Hey Guys & Gals,

We've recently spent some time focusing on performance testing with LemonStand. It's been a great series of tests and we've learnt a lot and had a lot of fun along the way. The fruits of all of this testing and work will be shared with the community in a few different ways, in the coming weeks we'll be releasing a few documents:

• LemonStand Performance White Paper
  
• LemonStand Performance Guide
  
• LemonStand & Load Balancing

The first being a detailed white paper on LemonStand's performance in several types of environments and configurations both for low traffic implementations and high-traffic, multi-instance implementations. The second, the performance guide, will be released a short while after the white paper, and the goal with this document is to outline how to achieve similar high-performance environments for your LemonStand deployment(s). The third will be some documentation on the current realities of LemonStand & Load Balancing and will detail some of our plans for high performance Load Balancing in the future.

The reason for this post today is that we want to hear from you guys about your current live LemonStand deployments! Every little detail you can possibly fit in, from the host you're using (if you are), the hardware it's on, the kind of pipe you've got coming in, etc. If you've got performance stats as well, we'd love to hear about those as well. But wait... didn't they just say they already did all this testing? Yup we absolutely did, but we'd really like to get an idea of what is the most common LemonStand deployment so that we can really tailor a great performance guide to that specific deployment. Our eventual goal is to have performance guides for the most common hosts and deployment types.

* Please submit details from PRODUCTION webservers only please! (No MAMP, WAMP, XAMPP etc.)

For those of you who would like to submit performance stats, but don't really know how, we'd recommend Munin: http://munin-monitoring.org/

And if you're already a performance expert and have some ideas we'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject as well!

[activeholdingco]

One of my sites is hosted at KnownHost.com. I have zero complaints with the service. I am hosted on a VPS in the Texas data center with 1GB Ram 60GB storage. With caching turned on LS is lightning fast!

Ill get you some better stats when I move to RS Cloud.

[Bryan Corey]

For www.pedimentbooks.com we are using a single EC2 instance launched through RightScale running on the default EC2 small instance described as having the following specs:

Quote

1.7 GB memory
1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit)
160 GB instance storage
32-bit platform

We are running CentOS 5.4 with Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.3.6, and MySQL 5.0.77. We also are using a Memcached instance with 512mb available. No complaints at all on speed. General server load doesn't seem to exceed 25% under normal use. Some cron jobs that interface with tons of MySQL records can raise the load quite a bit, but that's not LS's fault.

[Mike]

Bryan — where is your MySQL DB running?

[harrisonhyden]

Hi Bryan that's a great post.........

[davemcl]

Any update on the performance guide - doing my first deployment in a couple of weeks and this would be really useful.

Cheers
Dave

[davemcl]

Just wondering if you are still intending to release these docs?

Scott, on 13 July 2011 - 09:37 AM, said:

Hey Guys & Gals,

We've recently spent some time focusing on performance testing with LemonStand. It's been a great series of tests and we've learnt a lot and had a lot of fun along the way. The fruits of all of this testing and work will be shared with the community in a few different ways, in the coming weeks we'll be releasing a few documents:

• LemonStand Performance White Paper
  
• LemonStand Performance Guide
  
• LemonStand & Load Balancing

The first being a detailed white paper on LemonStand's performance in several types of environments and configurations both for low traffic implementations and high-traffic, multi-instance implementations. The second, the performance guide, will be released a short while after the white paper, and the goal with this document is to outline how to achieve similar high-performance environments for your LemonStand deployment(s). The third will be some documentation on the current realities of LemonStand & Load Balancing and will detail some of our plans for high performance Load Balancing in the future.

The reason for this post today is that we want to hear from you guys about your current live LemonStand deployments! Every little detail you can possibly fit in, from the host you're using (if you are), the hardware it's on, the kind of pipe you've got coming in, etc. If you've got performance stats as well, we'd love to hear about those as well. But wait... didn't they just say they already did all this testing? Yup we absolutely did, but we'd really like to get an idea of what is the most common LemonStand deployment so that we can really tailor a great performance guide to that specific deployment. Our eventual goal is to have performance guides for the most common hosts and deployment types.

* Please submit details from PRODUCTION webservers only please! (No MAMP, WAMP, XAMPP etc.)

For those of you who would like to submit performance stats, but don't really know how, we'd recommend Munin: http://munin-monitoring.org/

And if you're already a performance expert and have some ideas we'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject as well!