For the real speed freaks

[emp]

If you want real speed, listen up.

Check out "gatling", a high performance webserver.
All of 120KB big, it serves HTML via http and FTP.

Here is the original page:
http://www.fefe.de/gatling/

It has been entered into many distros, so adding it to your build should be quite easy.
Here is the ubuntu manpage, for example:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/gatling.1.html

Here is a nice benchmark vis-a-vis nginx:
http://www.ferdianto.com/2009/08/webserver-benchmark-gatling-vs-nginx/

Yeah, you are reading that right, 20K requests in 2 seconds.

But ... emp! Wait! It only serves static pages!​

That's right.

So use a static site generator in the back. Chose one:
https://www.staticgen.com/

Publish your site and use gatling to serve it to the public.

But if you are more into the round, fat ones

GWAN --> http://gwan.com/
serves PHP, Perl and other scripts at ridiculous speeds.

But yeah, it is a fat 150KB!!


::emp::

 

[eliquid]

I'd like to see these compared to cherokee

Overall size doesn't mean much to me, but the speed and how many concurrent it can handle does.

 

[emp]

The gwan guys actually compiled a bunch:

http://gwan.com/benchmark

::emp::

 

[qwianghomingh]

nginx mainline+php5.6+mariadb 10.x is great enough for me

 

[turbin3]

For those that want to venture off the conventional path:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2238&v=SadfV-qbVg8

Making a blog with Haskell, using the Yesod web framework. Check out some of the performance benchmarks for Yesod...