Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Performance

While features and community-related matters are important in general, the aspect that can make all the difference is performance. Administrators naturally tend to favor the server that will provide optimal comfort for the end user, characterized by minimal page load times and maximum download speeds. Chapter 2, Basic Nginx Configuration, provided a first approach to HTTP server performance testing. The same tests can be applied to Apache in order to establish direct performance comparisons. In fact, many admin bloggers and technicians have already done so, and the general trend is unquestionably in favor of Nginx on all aspects, such as the following:

• The RPS (requests per second) rate is generally much higher with Nginx, sometimes ...