title: Can Laravel 5 handle 1000 concurrent users without lagging badly?
body: <p>I wanted to know that if 1000 users are concurrently using a website built with laravel 5 and also querying database regularly then how does laravel 5 perform ?
  I know it would be slow but will it be highly slow that it would be unbearable ?
  Note that i am also going to use ajax a lot.</p>
  
  <p>And lets assume i am using digital ocean cloud service with following configurations</p>
  
  <pre><code>2GB memory
  2 vCPU
  40GB SSD
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't expect completely real figures as it is impossible to do so but at least provide some details whether i should go with laravel with some considerable performance.</p>
  
  <p>Please also provide some some tools through which i can check the speed of my laravel 5 application as well as how it will perform when there is actual load as well as other tools through which i can test speed and performance.</p>
  
  <p>And it would be great if someone has real experience of using laravel especially Laravel 5.</p>
  
  <p>And what about Lumen does that really make application faster than laravel and how much ?</p>