Here's some benchmarks: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9967887/node-js-itself-or-nginx-frontend-for-serving-static-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions

Here's some benchmarks: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9967887/node-js-itself-or-nginx-frontend-for-serving-static-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9967887/node-js-itself-or... Nginx is pretty well tuned for serving static files quickly and efficiently, whereas Node.js is not. At scale, you're much better off serving files through Nginx because it'll do it faster.