> My own benchmarks show costs that are nowhere near the ones cited. This is heavily dependent on the benchmark. In the OP, there is a ref to an academic resea

> My own benchmarks show costs that are nowhere near the ones cited. This is heavily dependent on the benchmark. In the OP, there is a ref to an academic research showing these numbers - and from my own real-world experience (NOT artificial benchmarks), the costs of 10K-100K are very usual. From a completely different perspective - there should be reasons why nginx beats Apache performance-wise :-).