For my speech in Kiberpipa (Cyber-pipe) I've presented five "light-weight" HTTP servers: Boa, Cherokee, Lighttpd, Nginx and Thttpd, Apache (1.3, 2.2) and LiteSpeed: benchmark with keep-alive enabled and with keep-alive disabled.
Tests were made on my desktop PC (Intel Core2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz) inside VMWare environment (memory: 256 MB, Debian Etch) with apache-benchmark tool, fetching 32 B long static text file.
Compared versions (configuration files will follow soon):
| Apache | 1.3.34 |
| Apache 2 (worker) | 2.2.3 |
|
Litespeed | 3.3.4 |
| thttpd | 2.23beta1-5 |
| Nginx |
0.5.35 |
| Lighttpd |
1.4.13 |
| Cherokee |
0.5.5 |
| Boa | 0.94.14rc21-0.2 |
i don’t think i am a suitable judge to say which one is better :) i have been running nginx (pronounced “engine x”) on my development box and six of my vps’s since august 2007. it is russian, fast and very configurable. collegue presented five...
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