Concrete5. Five easy ways to speed a concrete5 Site. Setup a subdomain based demo server. Setting Up and Maintaining a Centralized concrete5 Installation. Concrete5 Add-On Developers: Create Your Own concrete5 Demo. Cache'ing & concrete5 - my benchmark tests. I run the concrete5 cache on almost all of our websites...
I've set up another server today in the same datacentre purely to benchmark our production machine (we have been trying to work out how much traffic we can comfortably handle). Test: Run the AB process (with one concurrent connection at a time) and calculate how many times we can request a particular file page in a 60 second window.