Information on web servers

Apache

Lighttpd

php

IIS

Squid reverse proxy

Pound reverse proxy

Varnish reverse proxy

ngnix reverse proxy

Testing vhost with curl

Reverse proxy benchmark

A simple benchmark using ab. It's an jsp page served from tomcat via apache + mod_jk. This probably does not reflect the real world usage as it's benchmarked from the same box.

Server	Direct	Varnish	Nginx
Document size	417b	417b	417b
Concurrent level	100	100	100
Requests	10000	10000	10000
Mean time/request	676.88ms	53.5ms	56.27ms
Transfer rate	94.51KB/s	1284.88KB/s	1120.87KB/s
Failed requests	0	0	0
Longest request	66042	181	406