> A single core webserver serving static files isn't going to be much faster than 1 ms per file, so you're around 1k rps. And that's assuming you files are all

> A single core webserver serving static files isn't going to be much faster than 1 ms per file, so you're around 1k rps. And that's assuming you files are all cached. What “is” is this? Already in 2005, I was serving images at >3k qps on a single core of my server, without any tuning at all. Now we're 20 years later, with much faster TCP stacks and much faster cores.