2009/5/18 Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[email protected]>: > On 18-may-09, at 06:03, Antonio Ognio wrote: >> >> 2009/5/17 Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[email protected]>: >> >>> I'd like draw you attention to this benchmark I've just stumbled upon: >>> >>> http://nerdbynature.de/benchmarks/ab/2009-05-16/ >>> >>> It seems that Cherokee continues being the faster among the web >>> servers. According to this benchmark, Cherokee is, for instance, 79% >>> faster than Apache, and 18% faster than nginx. >> >> Is there any well-established, respected benchmark for webservers out >> there? > > > SpecWeb2005 is supposed to be the benchmark. However it isn't free (neither > as in freedom, nor as in beer), so it'll cost you $1200 USD.
And what are the interesting bits of this SpecWeb2005 benchmark? Any hint on how a FLOSS version could be created. Alvaro, in your experience what kind of organizations could be interested in sponsoring this kind of effort with the required hardware and people to do it right? A hosting company like, say, Rackspace? A hardware vendor like HP or IBM? On the subject of what could be typical real-world workloads I'd guess something like the following could be representative: Personal Blog Serve a Wordpress blog with a default theme and the same MySQL data in the same VPS enviroment under the same GNU/Linux distro with limited resource eg. 256 MB of RAM, etc. Website Media Server the same set of "small" static files consisting on the typical "media" section of a website: gif, jpg, png, css, js from a dedicated server enviroment (no virtualization) Small Content Delivery Network Serve the same set of "large" static files from sizes ranging from 10MB to 10 GB from a dedicated server enviroment (no virtualization) Big Iron Serve as many requests as possible in a big server with tons of RAM, lots of cache, fast disks and many cores. Here you could test both static and dynamic content. Maybe here, for the dynamic part you could test something RESTful made with Rails or Django. I guess this list is not the right place to discuss this.. maybe something could be worked out in a wiki or somewhere else, I'm just mentioning some of my ideas for you opinion and feedback. Antonio _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
