Server performance survey - How have you maximized your performance?
I have been trying to get my head around to understanding performance and scalability and would like to know how developers/sysadmins are doing to juicing their systems. To standardize the answers, it would help if you could take your best shot at responding to each of the following:

1. **Profile** - Magazine publication on Joomla; Jobs board on CodeIgniter + OpenId + AJAX
* **Performance** - Maximum requests per second **per server**?
* **Hardware** - Server, router, disk, LAN?
* **Software** - Lighttpd, Memcache, Varnish, Nginx, Squid, Pound, LVS, eAccelerator, etc.
* **Services** - Amazon S3, Akamai, Google compute, etc.
* **Configuration** - Static hashing, Upstream module, Memcache for x minutes after n requests, Disable logging image requests, etc.
* **Other** - Anything else? (example, normalized tables bad for sites with lots of reads)
Server performance survey - How have you maximized your performance?
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I have been trying to get my head around to understanding performance and scalability and would like to know how developers/sysadmins are doing to juicing their systems. To standardize the answers, it would help if you could take your best shot at responding to each of the following:

1. **Profile** - Magazine publication on Joomla; Jobs board on CodeIgniter + OpenId + AJAX
* **Performance** - Maximum requests per second **per server**?
* **Hardware** - Server, router, disk, LAN?
* **Software** - Lighttpd, Memcache, Varnish, Nginx, Squid, Pound, LVS, eAccelerator, etc.
* **Services** - Amazon S3, Akamai, Google compute, etc.
* **Configuration** - Static hashing, Upstream module, Memcache for x minutes after n requests, Disable logging image requests, etc.
* **Other** - Anything else? (example, normalized tables bad for sites with lots of reads)