Benchmarking CMSMS

[Hockey]

I would like to host several web sites all of which will use CMSMS. Each is about 75KB in bandwidth.

I have calculated approximately 250 sites can be hosted on my dedicated server (with just bandwidth)

With an AMD XP2200 w/ 1GB RAM, assuming everything is powered solely by CMSMS and it's modules...does this sound plausible?

How CPU/RAM intensive is CMSMS on a per request basis?

I realize things get more complicated with the more modules you install and the more DB queries are executed. But assume I have a moderately complex web site.

- 50 pages (which can be cached)
- News module
- Login module (limit people to restricted pages)
- Basic product catalogue
- Search functionality
- Breadcrumbs
- Sitemap (cachable?)
- Events module
- Employee contact module

Anyone have any tips or ideas I can implement to benchmark results for an average site so I can get a feel as to how many sites I can actually host?

[brady]

Well, I can tell you from experience that CMS Made Simple will work fine on a shared hosting account. So, you could probably get just about as many cmsms sites on a dedicated server as you could get shared hosting accounts on it. Another thing to consider is whether a PHP accelerator would improve your performance. I'm not sure as I don't have my own server.

[Pierre M.]

Hello Hockey,

you should consider serving static files cached by the webserver "under" CMSms. This way you need no db access and no CPU for PHP. Just HTML and CSS files served. Apache does this automatically (mod_cache).
BTW, use compression too. Apache does this automatically (mod_deflate).

Please search for my previous messages about mod_cache and compression/mod_deflate. Or feel free to ask for clarifications.
Have fun.

Pierre M.

BTW, consider lighttpd.net too.
edit: typo.