Azure-A3-4core-7GBRAM Running pts/sqlite-1.9.0, pts/nginx-1.1.0, pts/phpbench-1.1.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. nginx+php+sqlite: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine v7.0, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 512 MB + 6656 MB, Disk: 31GB Virtual Disk + 129GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: Microsoft Hyper-V virtual VGA OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-33-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: Microsoft Hyper-V Server DigitalOcean-1CPU-1GBRAM-SSD: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB RAM, Disk: 30GB OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024, System Layer: KVM Azure-A3-4CPU-7GBRAM-HDD: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine v7.0, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 512 MB + 6656 MB, Disk: 31GB Virtual Disk + 129GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: Microsoft Hyper-V virtual VGA OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-33-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: Microsoft Hyper-V Server AREShomeserver-2CPU-1.5GBRAM-HDD: Processor: 2 x Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.81GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1024 MB + 512 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 54GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: CentOS 7.1.1503, Kernel: 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1672x1254, System Layer: VMware PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better nginx+php+sqlite ................. 27971 |============== DigitalOcean-1CPU-1GBRAM-SSD ..... 37090 |=================== Azure-A3-4CPU-7GBRAM-HDD ......... 28024 |============== AREShomeserver-2CPU-1.5GBRAM-HDD . 72882 |===================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better nginx+php+sqlite ......... 6753.78 |========================================== Azure-A3-4CPU-7GBRAM-HDD . 6836.93 |=========================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better nginx+php+sqlite ................. 863.03 |==================================== DigitalOcean-1CPU-1GBRAM-SSD ..... 39.59 |== Azure-A3-4CPU-7GBRAM-HDD ......... 615.37 |========================== AREShomeserver-2CPU-1.5GBRAM-HDD . 17.11 |=