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In the process of moving my sites over to Opalstack, I ran a few performance (Apache Bench) tests on the sites running on each server.
I made sure to run the apache bench tests both locally (so as to compare processing time and ignore network overheads) as well as on the corresponding server. I ran for one Wordpress site and one PHP website.
The results showed that Opalstack's server (Frankfurt, Opal6) was approximately 10-40% faster at processing the requests than the Webfaction server (UK, Web566).
Comparing like for like:
These were only very brief tests, so I'd be interested to see any of Opalstack's own benchmarking, and if anybody else has data - especially for Postgres databases.
I was pleasantly surprised by the speed improvements. Here's to hoping the Opalstack shared servers don't become sluggish as more users get added to them