The document compares the performance of pagodabox, heroku, and a dedicated Sakura server by pinging each server and reporting the round-trip times. Pagodabox had an average round-trip time of 151ms, heroku was slower at 266ms on average, and the dedicated Sakura server was the fastest at 15ms on average. It also provides instructions for using the pagoda CLI tool to set up a tunnel to access services running on pagodabox.