I'd like to see Chef/Puppet/Ansible build/deploy scripts for the test boxes, and the same for the box that siege was running from, assuming it's not a personal

I'd like to see Chef/Puppet/Ansible build/deploy scripts for the test boxes, and the same for the box that siege was running from, assuming it's not a personal laptop (and if it is, it shouldn't be). Benchmarks are hard, and it's a lot easier to be confident about results if others can easily repeat the experiments.