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Pfffffffffffffffffffff. even CakePHP 0.1 pre-alpha would do better on that server than CI 2.0 on my laptop 😊)

SSD: you mean…Solid State Drive? compared with my 5400 rpm HDD that’s several times faster. you’re cheating the benchmark topic 😊)

@n0xie, was it hard not to put these specs in your signature line? I know it would be for me 😊

Actually it’s not that impressive (the machine is nearly a year old). Everyone at our company has a similar setup. The cores come in handy because we use a lot of virtual machines. The same can be said for the memory. Besides the Programmers bill of rights implies that developers should have access to fast computers (as well as two monitors). Employees are the most expensive part of most companies. Making them more productive pays itself back in the long run…

I was thinking about getting second monitor, but does it really increase productivity? How do you leverage it?

Studies show that programmers working with a dual monitor setup are 20-30% more productive. Also it’s part of the Programmers Bill of Rights

What I wonder, how did you manage to get Apache so god damn fast. Not even Nginx seems to go over 10 000 reqs/sec, but that could just be my configuration.

He is using a core i7 system with 12GB ram and SSD. even the slowest and the crapiest framework would be fast.

He is using a core i7 system with 12GB ram and SSD. even the slowest and the crapiest framework would be fast.

Yeah, definately the machine specs are a big part of the performance. Theres really nothing you can do much to optimize in terms of normal html pages in apache. Whole different thing is when you start to tweak database/php performance.