Tag Archives: Weighttpd

Web Server Performance Benchmark

Posted by on September 4, 2012 36 comments

I’ve been benchmarking different web servers recently and this post contains all of my results as well as information on how the tests were performed during the process.

I have benchmarked Apache 2.2, Apache 2.4, Nginx, Lighttpd, Varnish, Litespeed, Cherokee and G-WAN web servers when running on 1 CPU core, 2 CPU cores, 4 CPU cores and 8 CPU cores while loading a 100 byte static HTML page to determine the difference between them in performance.

2016 Update: I have run the tests again with up to date web server versions in 2016.

Web server performance benchmark

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Weighttpd, Windows and PowerShell

Posted by on July 30, 2012 1 comment

Recently I’ve been using a great benchmarking took called Weighttpd, from the makers of the Lighttpd Web Server. Weighttpd is great because it is multithreaded, unlike it’s ancient and still used predecessor, Apache Benchmark (ab). I have made a short PowerShell script that uses this tool in Windows in order to run benchmarks that step through concurrency levels.

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