Self reply, since I waited too long to edit: I remembered I had an older 8 core server sitting unused at the moment. I configured nginx with 8 workers, and ran

Self reply, since I waited too long to edit: I remembered I had an older 8 core server sitting unused at the moment. I configured nginx with 8 workers, and ran `ab` against it. From a single (VM) host, I can get 680 connections per second (maxed the cpu on the host running the test). From 4 hosts, each host got > 290 connections per sec, so I got nginx up to over 1190 new connections per second, and can likely push it further. [EDIT] got it to peak at 1535 requests per second with 4 hosts testing.