Ugh, then there is something seriously wrong with your configuration. This is another interesting benchmark between nginx, lighttpd and varnish: http://nbonvin

Ugh, then there is something seriously wrong with your configuration. This is another interesting benchmark between nginx, lighttpd and varnish: http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static-files-which-server-to-use/ http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static... Even on a Core i3 laptop nginx can handle 70k req/s