Response Time

@santz: Would you mind testing it out yourself? There’s currently a promo for a free month on their 512MB droplet (I can’t find the promo code in my e-mail, right now, but I’m sure you could find it on Google or on DigitalOcean’s Twitter feed). <br> <br>According to D.O.'s FAQs, they use “Intel Hex-Core” processors and all of their “CPUs are b/w 2 and 3 GHz.” That, coupled w/SSD drives & a Tier 1 data center … I’d say their resources are sufficient for “a small freelancer’s site.”

This depends on your location, and your droplet location, and actually a lot more things. I was wondering the same as you, so I just got one to test it and I am pretty satisfied, but I have been testing for just two days.

The page generation time for vanilla Wordpress (no plugins) is 250-350ms. (This is the time for generation only, no network latency, on CentOS 6, PHP 5.3, Apache) <br> <br>With a lot of plugins (I run approx. 25-30/site) I’m hitting about ~800-1000ms for page generation. <br>However, you can of course cache static pages (with caching plugin) to serve them much faster.