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We are creating two servers in Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/cloud).

Parmeters of both: CPX51 - vCPU 16 AMD, RAM 32 GB.

On one server with Ubuntu 22.04 we install Docker and run the PHP application Laravel + nginx on it. The nginx image is https://serversideup.net/open-source/docker-php/.

On the other one we install the Artillery application (https://www.artillery.io)

Our test scenario

config:
  target: "https://IP"
  tls: {
      "rejectUnauthorized": false
  }
  phases:
    - duration: 60
      name: "1000 on 60 sec"
      arrivalCount: 1000
    - duration: 60
      name: "2000 on 60 sec"
      arrivalCount: 2000
    - duration: 60
      name: "5000 on 60 sec"
      arrivalCount: 5000
    - duration: 60
      name: "10000 on 60 sec"
      arrivalCount: 10000
    - duration: 60
      name: "15000 on 60 sec"
      arrivalCount: 15000
    - duration: 60
      name: "20000 on 60 sec"
      arrivalCount: 20000
scenarios:
  - name: Main
    flow:
      - get:
          url: "/"

Our result is:

Results

The results seem poor to us, especially reading articles like this (https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-day-on-wordpress-using-a-10-vps/). Our portal will be hosted on Kubernetes with LoadBalancer at the end. However, we would like to know which results on such a machine are good and which are bad. We cannot find such a reference anywhere. We are looking for some sort of comparison. Can you help us?

portableunit
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Have you tried applying any Nginx configuration from the article you "read" in particular or any Nginx high-load configuration in general?

Have you did the same on Laravel side?

If you're using a database (and I believe you are) have you walked through database vendor's recommendations on its performance and tuning?

Also your test doesn't make a lot of sense as I don't think hammering the IP address of your endpoint is a valid use case for your application, even if it's a one-pager or SPA it will contain images, scripts, styles, etc. which should also be downloaded. And if your application assumes more complex logic, user journeys, etc. - you should replicate real user actions with 100% accuracy and you might need a more advanced performance testing tool like Apache JMeter which can be configured to behave like a real browser

Dmitri T
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  • Thank you for your explanation. Is there any table/comparison/indicator that tells how many users/requests per minute is Heavy Load? We are creating a startup with a small team. We don't know what kind of traffic to expect. What score of users/requests in nginx per minute is a good score for one instance? – portableunit Aug 08 '23 at 08:04