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wampa:siege-2.70 jblount$ ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://joshuablount.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking joshuablount.com (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Completed 400 requests
Completed 500 requests
Completed 600 requests
Completed 700 requests
Completed 800 requests
Completed 900 requests
Completed 1000 requests
Finished 1000 requests


Server Software:        nginx/0.7.67
Server Hostname:        joshuablount.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        12216 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   27.644 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      12573777 bytes
HTML transferred:       12232168 bytes
Requests per second:    36.17 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       276.441 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       27.644 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          444.19 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       48   62  31.3     59    1015
Processing:   153  213 276.5    173    2933
Waiting:       50   76 131.6     59    1380
Total:        204  275 278.2    233    2989

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    233
  66%    243
  75%    251
  80%    256
  90%    277
  95%    298
  98%    605
  99%   2932
 100%   2989 (longest request)

Now using memcached... but it doesn't seem any better.