Some Benchmarks

Thought I'd run Centmin Mod through some benchmarks. Nothing serious- just using the Benchmark Plugin on Wordpress as that's what I use. Currently, my website is hosted with Web Synthesis. Their Wordpress offering is also based on NGINX. Here is a result from their VPS with 1GB RAM:

CPU Speed:31,481 BogoWips
Database Queries per Second:2,011 Queries/Sec

That's certainly a good score. To give you something to compare, I was interested in Cloudways that offers Digital Ocean hosting with nginx/varnish. Here is their score for the 1GB VPS

CPU Speed:32,336 BogoWips
Database Queries per Second:581 Queries/Sec

Decent CPU performance but Database queries are much lower than the industry standard which is 1,292 Queries/Sec

Next, I set up a VPS at Softlayer (my favourite provider). Again a 1GB VPS server, first with cPanel installed:

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CPU Speed:43,062 BogoWips
Database Queries per Second:1,585 Queries/Sec

Good score on the CPU- faster than Web Synthesis but a bit slower in Database. Same server as above but this time with Centmin Mod

CPU Speed:44,513 BogoWips
Database Queries per Second:3,973 Queries/Sec

Same CPU score (as expected) as cPanel but look at those Database numbers- fastest in all the tests above and by a long margin!

 

Do you see a reasonable difference between MariaDB 5.5 and 10.x? Also any ETA on .08 stable? I ask because I was planning on moving from Web Synthesis to Soft Layer (because of the server location) but I can wait a tad bit if .08 is around the corner and offers noticeable performance increases.