[rartichoke]

Benchmarks are fun but I'll stick with rails and its simple ways of letting you cache data.

I'm ok with getting out the door response times of 8-15ms while serving 20,000 unique hits a day on a $5/month VPS. The server does not even break a sweat too and it's doing more than serving the app too.

[matthewking]

What kind of response times do you get on a cache miss though?

[rartichoke]

80ms-350ms is normal under typical traffic conditions. It depends on the complexity of the page.

That's still not terrible though and it could easily improve by massive amounts with a stronger server. I have not gone crazy with profiling either. Just using fairly basic cache blocks when applicable.