# Hosting - Performance Benchmarks? Personal Experience?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hosting-performance-benchmarks-personal-experience/297895>\
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**Created:** [October 9, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hosting-performance-benchmarks-personal-experience/297895 "2009-10-09T20:15:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hosting-performance-benchmarks-personal-experience/297895/1 "2009-10-09T20:15:13Z")

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What do you recommend?

I’ve been with Media Temple for a long while and Plesk is getting annoying. I’ve heard raves about Slicehost but am not really convinced by their sales site yet.

Really just looking for a bare-bones server with root access and great speed. Distro doesn’t really matter, but I’d prefer Ubuntu or CentOS.

Need to be able to install the essentials: Apache 2, MySQL 5, Python / Django, PHP5, Qmail w/ vPopmail.

And the not-so-essentials: FFMPEG, FFMPEG-PHP, APE, Lighttpd (or other, for static file serving), etc…

Performance is my primary concern.

So, hrm? 🙂