How fast is it?

On a standard VPS, Mercury can serve 2,000+ pages per second. Yes, that's per second. It is more than two hundred times faster than standard hosting environments.

It can generate a typical page in less than .5 seconds. This is 3 times faster than a standard Drupal hosting set up.

We know that real internet traffic comes in spikes from major referrers such as Digg, Drudge Report, the AP wire. With Mercury you can easily weather these kinds of spikes with a commodity host that offers you great value for your money.