From the Benchmarks Wiki page:<p><pre><code>    Benchmarks are extremely important when making infrastructure
    and configuration changes. The Raspberry Pi is by no means a
    &#x27;high performance&#x27; computer, but even with it&#x27;s power-starved architecture,
    we can optimize many different parts of the stack to make the Pi perform well.
</code></pre>
I&#x27;ve been hosting www.pidramble.com on a cluster of 6 Raspberry Pi 2s with an Nginx load balancer, 4 Nginx + PHP web servers, and one MySQL database server for about 6 months, with two periods of downtime when I had to switch off the circuit in my office for some electrical work.<p>The Pi 2 isn&#x27;t a speed demon, but it&#x27;s actually not so bad for a casual on-premise hosting solution, especially if you add in better failover modes. I&#x27;m going to be moving the architecture that direction for a presentation I&#x27;ll be giving at php[tek] this summer.