frankenphp + octane (Quick)

@jaydrogers·2026-09-18· Source · Discuss

Host

DigitalOcean

$1,310/mo (c-48-intel)

Hardware

48 cores

94.3 GB RAM

Server

FrankenPHP

PHP 8.5.10 · Octane

Database

PostgreSQL

oha

Web server load test

worker mode I/O 100ms External load0.95ms RTT oha 1.16.0

Concurrency was raised until throughput stopped improving. Response times were measured separately, at about 70% of that rate, so they include no queue a real visitor would not also hit. Learn more

Static

Framework baseline — no database

28,008

req/s at 79 concurrent

Typical p501ms

Slowest 5% p953ms

Slowest 1% p994ms

JSON API

25-item JSON payload

25,542

req/s at 74 concurrent

Typical p502ms

Slowest 5% p953ms

Slowest 1% p994ms

DB read

20 rows queried per request

19,155

req/s at 260 concurrent

Typical p502ms

Slowest 5% p954ms

Slowest 1% p9933ms

I/O-bound

Simulated ~100ms outbound call

991

req/s at 385 concurrent

Typical p50101ms

Slowest 5% p95102ms

Slowest 1% p99102ms

Static

Framework baseline — no database

28,008

req/s at 79 concurrent

JSON API

25-item JSON payload

25,542

req/s at 74 concurrent

DB read

20 rows queried per request

19,155

req/s at 260 concurrent

I/O-bound

Simulated ~100ms outbound call

991

req/s at 385 concurrent

Typical p50

1ms

2ms

101ms

Slowest 5% p95

3ms

4ms

102ms

Slowest 1% p99

4ms

33ms

102ms

phpbench

Laravel database performance

100 records per operation

↓ Lower is better — time to run 100 statements, one record each

Create Create

24.7ms

INSERT per record

±3.7% over 5 runs

Read Read

11.3ms

SELECT per record, by id

±3.51% over 5 runs

Update Update

36.4ms

UPDATE per record, by id

±8.6% over 5 runs

Delete Delete

32.5ms

DELETE per record, by id

±20.37% over 5 runs — unstable

cfspeedtest

Network speed test

Measured from the server to Cloudflare's nearest edge — this latency rides on every external request the app makes.

Download

2325mbps

Upload

658mbps

Latency

35ms

Configuration

Environment

Host

Provider: DigitalOcean
Plan: c-48-intel
Datacenter: NYC2
Cost: $1,310/mo

Runtime

Server: FrankenPHP
Mode: Worker (persistent)
Web server: frankenphp
SAPI: frankenphp
PHP: 8.5.10
Laravel: 13.25.0
Database: pgsql

Machine

CPU: INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6548N (48 cores)
RAM: 94.3 GB
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)

Tuning

Write durability: synchronous_commit=on · fsync=on
OPcache: on
JIT: Off
OPcache memory: 256 MB
Memory limit: 256M
max_requests: 500
max_execution_time: 30

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