Server speed benchmarks
Yesterday, I wrote about node.js being fast. Here are some numbers. I ran Apache Benchmark on the simplest Hello World program possible, testing 10,000 requests with 100 concurrent connections (ab -n 10000 -c 100). These are on my Dell E5400, with lots of application running, so take them with a pinch of salt. PHP5 on Apache 2.2.6 <?php echo “Hello world” ?> 1,550/sec Base case. But this isn’t too bad Tornado/Python See Tornadoweb example 1,900/sec Over 20% faster Static HTML on Apache 2.2.6 Hello world 2,250/sec Another 20% faster Static HTML on nginx 0.9.0 Hello world 2,400/sec 6% faster node.js 0.4.1 See nodejs.org example 2,500/sec Faster than a static file on nginx! I was definitely NOT expecting this result… but it looks like serving a static file with node.js could be faster than nginx. This might explain why Markup.io is exposing node.js directly, without an nginx or varnish proxy. ...