Tom got an AWS account this weekend, so I decided to geek out on it.

On Sunday I pulled the trigger and put leveltendesign.com up Amazon's Web Services using Chapter Three's Mercury AMI.

I'll write more about this later, but I just wanted to share this before I leave tonight:

4,000 HTTP requests served in less than 1 second, run on the production server.

root@ip-10-160-59-223:~# ab -c1 -n4000 http://localhost/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)
Completed 400 requests
Completed 800 requests
Completed 1200 requests
Completed 1600 requests
Completed 2000 requests
Completed 2400 requests
Completed 2800 requests
Completed 3200 requests
Completed 3600 requests
Completed 4000 requests
Finished 4000 requests


Server Software:        Apache/2.2.11
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        18493 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   0.929 seconds
Complete requests:      4000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      75904000 bytes
HTML transferred:       73972000 bytes
Requests per second:    4306.41 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       0.232 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.232 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          79803.24 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.2      0      10
Processing:     0    0   0.8      0      21
Waiting:        0    0   0.7      0      21
Total:          0    0   0.8      0      21

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%      0
  66%      0
  75%      0
  80%      0
  90%      0
  95%      0
  98%      0
  99%      0
 100%     21 (longest request)