Thanks for your comments. Would you please clarify the URL difference in your first suggestion? AFAIK it makes no difference with or without the trailing slash.

The benchmark, as I have mentioned in the post, was not done scientifically in the sense of using equal software environment. I hope in the future I am able to conduct a more thorough benchmark. As of right now I am busy with some other stuff…

Thanks again for your comments I will definitely take them into account for the next benchmark (whenever that will be).

Cheers,
Fred

think that says one thing: for fast PHP, you need much CPU Power.

think its a rather useless comparison.

1. you should test against
ab -n50 http://url/to/my/vps/wordpress/
not against
ab -n50 http://url/to/my/vps/wordpress

2. test against really static content .html, if caching opens php process, its of course very differnt.

3. ahmm, sorry -xcache enabled as you already said…
have you tried
pecl install apc
for apache, or eaccelerator? I got different mixupped results on different machines - very interestig stuff.

Hope you will do more of it, e.g. let us know both benchs with / wothout opcode caching on bot servers…

greetings from the other end of da world,
chris