Slowness on Dreamhost

[eluser]Crimp[/eluser]
Sure. elapsed time in the benchmarking class is from CI starts to final output. If the time varies from env. to env., it is of course due to the env. and not CI being slow. So your question is really: Is 0.1 to 2 sec. slow? Well, 0.1 is pretty fast and 2 is pretty slow. Either way, there's very little you can do apart from upgrading shared host -> VPS -> dedicated. Each level will give you more to play with in performance tuning to shave off some ms. Nothing flies at $7.95 a month for a gazillion GB in storage and bandwidth. You likely share that server with 800-1000 domains (you can look it up).