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I'd like to know where the reports are that Apache 2.4 was faster than Nginx. The test in the post hardly seems exhaustive; most web servers do more than serve

I'd like to know where the reports are that Apache 2.4 was faster than Nginx. The test in the post hardly seems exhaustive; most web servers do more than serve up a 9kb file on the loopback address. I have to imagine, that the actual 'report' was that 'apache 2.4 is faster than nginx in certain situations'. This would certainly seem to back that up: http://mondotech.blogspot.com/2012/02/apache-24-vs-nginx-benchmark-showdown.html http://mondotech.blogspot.com/2012/02/apache-24-vs-nginx-ben...

JoshMock 15y ago
Agreed. It's one thing to say "x is faster than y" wholesale rather than considering the endless possible configuration options for each that could affect performance. Seems like it'd be a lot more constructive to say, "Hey, it's not true out of the box, but here are settings you can fiddle with that, if they work in your situation, could make Apache a better option than Nginx." Anybody want to write that blog post? :)
- phillmv 15y ago
  Well… someone should! I'm frankly really tired of operating on cargo cult programming when it comes to my server packages. They're totally opaque to me, since they're huge pieces of software. Is MongoDB fast? What about Riak or Couch or whatever? What does "fast" mean? I want charts, damnit, and comparison tables with feature matrices and stuff that can used toe evaluate and, hell, I want you to put up vagrant images so I can run these tests myself.
jfoutz 15y ago
I look forward to the results of your testing!
jjoe 15y ago
"We also show that as far as true performance is based - real-world performance as seen by the end-user- 2.4 is as fast, and even faster than some of the servers who may be "better" known as being "fast", like nginx," Jagielski said. Jim Jagielski is the ASF President Source: http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/apache-2.4-delivers-more-performance.html http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/apache-2.4-delivers-m...
mst 15y ago
The disclaimer on that benchmark is beautiful - I very much appreciate both the degree of honesty about the applicability of the results and the reminder that the majority of benchmarks we as developers personally run suffer from exactly the same caveats.

JoshMock 15y ago

Agreed. It's one thing to say "x is faster than y" wholesale rather than considering the endless possible configuration options for each that could affect performance. Seems like it'd be a lot more constructive to say, "Hey, it's not true out of the box, but here are settings you can fiddle with that, if they work in your situation, could make Apache a better option than Nginx." Anybody want to write that blog post? :)

phillmv 15y ago
Well… someone should! I'm frankly really tired of operating on cargo cult programming when it comes to my server packages. They're totally opaque to me, since they're huge pieces of software. Is MongoDB fast? What about Riak or Couch or whatever? What does "fast" mean? I want charts, damnit, and comparison tables with feature matrices and stuff that can used toe evaluate and, hell, I want you to put up vagrant images so I can run these tests myself.

jfoutz 15y ago

I look forward to the results of your testing!

jjoe 15y ago

"We also show that as far as true performance is based - real-world performance as seen by the end-user- 2.4 is as fast, and even faster than some of the servers who may be "better" known as being "fast", like nginx," Jagielski said. Jim Jagielski is the ASF President Source: http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/apache-2.4-delivers-more-performance.html http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/apache-2.4-delivers-m...

mst 15y ago

The disclaimer on that benchmark is beautiful - I very much appreciate both the degree of honesty about the applicability of the results and the reminder that the majority of benchmarks we as developers personally run suffer from exactly the same caveats.