[wplug] Alternative web servers

[Zach]

On 2/23/07, Shane Liesegang <shane at shaneliesegang.com> wrote:
> Does anybody on the list have experience with non-Apache web servers on
> Linux? I've been reading a bit about lighttpd and Cherokee, but it's hard to
> separate the hype from reality. Specifically, I'm looking for real-world
> performance metrics with dynamic pages, mostly PHP. The majority of
> benchmarks I've seen focus on static content, which isn't a huge help,
> sadly.

General overview of features:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_servers

Zeus biased but gives some comparisons:
http://www.zeus.com/news/pdf/white_papers/zws_comparison.pdf
http://www.zeus.com/news/pdf/white_papers/SPECweb99.pdf

Here's something else to consider (kernel):
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-web26/

Some nice tools you can run against different web servers:
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php
http://www.spec.org/web2005/

General howto on web server benchmarking:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-performance-benchmarks-a-web-server.html

Zach