This is what I was trying to address with my Meta question [Can we weed out the benchmarking questions?][1]

What I got from the answers was that we could do away from these if there were Canonical Questions, so I wrote [How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites][2] and [How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Databases][3]

I also believe that there was a section of the FAQ added in order to address these broadly-answerable questions.  (I can't find it now.  Perhaps it was part of a discussion...)


  [1]: http://meta.serverfault.com/q/2612/50875
  [2]: http://serverfault.com/q/350454/50875
  [3]: http://serverfault.com/q/350458/50875