Optimum hosting and setup for CI

[eluser]duellsy[/eluser]
Curious to hear what people feel is the best setup for a server hosting a code igniter site, and also their CI setup.

Ideally, some benchmarking data if you've got it as well to compare against ongoing.

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
Try to place your system and application folders in the root of the server.

like my server is under public_html so my system and application folders are above that
../

Only index.php is in public_html, but this depends on the server configuration.

InsiteFX

[eluser]duellsy[/eluser]
cheers, but I'm more talking about the actual server setup itself