Test : Synology DS508
by Christophe Noël
Published on June 16, 2008
Web servers
Let us remind you of the test methods we use to get an idea of a NAS’ performances in serving as a Web hosting platform: – « Free PHP Benchmark Script » from the site Free Web Hosting measures the execution time of a group of mathematical functions in PHP ; – With a script of our making, we simply measured the execution time of the following SQL request: « BENCHMARK(1000000,encode("bonjour","au revoir"))».
Of course, these scripts do not in any way enable us to carry out an extensive test of server performances (there are special applications for this), but this was not our goal. As a reference, we have included the results obtained with a PC equipped with a P4 at 2.4 GHz/2 GB DDR, in Windows XP and with Wamp 2.0.
Here are the installed applications:
While we liked the gain in the execution speed of PHP script, MySQL server performances plummet. The overall balance is still better than the CS407’s as consulting a medium sized PHPBB2 forums appears to be slightly more reactive here.
