Ry has some Nginx / Node comparison in his JSConf slides http://nodejs.org/jsconf2010.pdf http://nodejs.org/jsconf2010.pdf Summary: Node isn't quite as fast as

Ry has some Nginx / Node comparison in his JSConf slides http://nodejs.org/jsconf2010.pdf http://nodejs.org/jsconf2010.pdf Summary: Node isn't quite as fast as NginX but it's close, and it's programable, and he's still tuning it.