An entry from 2009-11-29 in the Journal. UPDATE: The scripts used for benchmarking, graphing, and all the raw data can be found over at my git repository. Be aware that the graphs presented here has an Y-axis which goes from the minimum to the maximum value and not from 0 to maximum. My latest side project, was it up?--a free web monitoring service, required a number of VPS instances due to its di