lesterchan.net on nginx/php-fpm & MariaDB
My site averaged about 1,900ms response time on Pingdom, rising to 2,600ms after switching to HTTPS while still on Apache 2.4.7 with PHP 5.5.9 via mod_php. Moving to nginx 1.6.2 and PHP 5.5.22 via php-fpm brought it back to 1,900ms.