I am in the process of deploying an updated version of a PHP web
application that has been running on Apache and Nginx on Linux. This time I
have done all the development running the webserver on OpenBSD httpd+PHP.
The setup is so much simpler and I am used to running OpenBSD boxes as
gateways/firewall so I am familiar.
However, before I take the final step and deploy the new application on
OpenBSD httpd in production I would like to hear if anyone has any
experience to share regarding performance compared to running Apache or
Nginx on Linux? Any caveats to look out for?
Kind regards!
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I never deployed it in the real world, but made a version of my web server
using httpd. To test it I beat the crap out of it with three other
OpenBSD systems running wget scripts and programs simulating hordes of
users. It worked well, saturating a 100mb test network.
I have never cared for "speed", because a faster less secure site only
leads to a notice of breakins or worse. Regardless of the software you
use, you should always be really mean to it
Try to crash it--multiple machines on your test network will really, really
test it.
--STeve Andre'
Ps: if you do find weirdness, report it!
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