nginx vs varnish
it has been a long time I am using varnish + apache. and I was reading nginx is really fast. 2 days ago I installed nginx and configure one php page works with it. here are the ab outputs this is varnish mascix@mascix-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~/tmp/akka/example-akka-http$ ab -n 100 -c 10 http://sifavi.com/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1528965 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking sifavi.com (be patient).....done Server Software: Apache Server Hostname: sifavi.com Server Port: 80 Document Path: / Document Length: 230 bytes Concurrency Level: 10 Time taken for tests: 0.937 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Non-2xx responses: 100 Total transferred: 57784 bytes HTML transferred: 23000 bytes Requests per second: 106.73 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 93.696 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 9.370 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 60.23 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 42 45 3.3 44 56 Processing: 43 47 3.6 45 64 Waiting: 43 47 3.5 45 64 Total: 86 92 5.4 90 113 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 90 66% 92 75% 96 80% 97 90% 101 95% 102 98% 110 99% 113 100% 113 (longest request) this is nginx ...