I’ve been working with Aegir recently to get some ideas how to host multiple Drupal sites in a somewhat automated and scalable way. To my surprise the performance was actually a lot better with the t1.micro instance which runs the Aegir platform than what I get from the small instance. A video below has a demo when running the identical sites on both servers:
The pageload was around 2.6 seconds with the standard Drupal installation and around a second faster with the Aegir platform. The site on Aegir was dump from the other site taken a few days ago with no significant differences. Have to say I really really like Aegir!
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