Benjamin W. Smith

Benjamin W. Smith

Benjamin W. Smith  //  Sysadmin by trade, Pythonista by passion. Dad to two boys and a girl. Guitarist. I like my coffee black, just like my metal.

May 14 / 11:03am

Performance Testing: Apache vs. Lighttpd - Preface

So, I became curious about the performance of my site. This happened mainly because I hadn’t see the nice increase in performance from lighty I had hoped for. So I whipped up a matching apache config did a couple of quick ab tests.

You can see the results here:
Apache
Lighttpd

I know ab tests are not the end-all be-all of performance benchmarking, but I’m kinda disappointed.. I’ll go into more detail when it’s not one in the morning and I have to work. At that time I’ll also pose some alternative configurations. I’d like to see what I can get out of lighty because I was considering making a case for it at work

Till then…

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