Measurements — the full reports behind the numbers

Every performance and security claim on this site comes from a round that was run, logged and written up. These are those write-ups, in full: the hardware, the dataset, the conditions, the raw figures, and the claims that did not survive attribution and were withdrawn. Several of these rounds concluded that a change we expected to matter made no measurable difference — those are here too, because a benchmark you only publish when it flatters you is advertising.

1. 01The aaPanel benchmark, in fullTwo bugs in our own benchmark, found before the numbers were used · Single runs lie on machines this size · Every endpoint · The rival was tuned first, and the gap did not close
2. 02MariaDB versions, measured — four pairs, no reportable differenceThe short answer · The first database comparison was invalid, and the floor is what gave it away · The version pairs, measured properly · Why not MySQL — and this one is not a benchmark result
3. 03The OS and stack round — six axes, one reportable resultThe short answer · The six axes, and what each returned · The noise floor, which limits every other number on this page · Where each component comes from, and why that is the whole decision
4. 04PHP versions, measured — four pairings, four washesThe short answer · The four pairings · The three-way, in full · So 8.5 ≈ 8.3, and 8.4 is two to seven percent behind
5. 05Security and isolation, measuredWhat was actually attempted, not asserted · The leak side and the attack side are different questions · What the kernel namespace closed, and what it cost · Per-project Redis, and the ACL that does not exist
6. 06How the 6amMart optimisation was measuredThree kinds of number, and why they stay apart · The admin sweep — all 297 pages · The acceptance rule · What was measured and deliberately not shipped
7. 07What we withdrewThe measurement that forced the rest · "+32 % from the distribution's own packages" · "MariaDB 11.x is 2.7× slower" · The database comparison that was thrown away entirely
8. 08How we measureThe rules, in short · The noise floor, and why it dictates everything else · Control rows are the resolution floor · Order matters more than repetition