I did a `npm install http-server`.

It threw me a module not found error twice - once for `eyes` and once for `colors`

I ran it on a directory and tested it with `ab -n 100 -c 5 localhost:8080/`.

    Concurrency Level:      5
    Time taken for tests:   0.046 seconds
    Complete requests:      100
    Failed requests:        0
    Write errors:           0
    Total transferred:      175900 bytes
    HTML transferred:       149900 bytes
    Requests per second:    2159.97 [#/sec] (mean)
    Time per request:       2.315 [ms] (mean)
    Time per request:       0.463 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
    Transfer rate:          3710.33 [Kbytes/sec] received

So, in my micro benchmark, it doesn't do 6000 request/second on my box.

EDIT: `ab -n 15000 -c 5 localhost:8080/` is about 3000 req/s on my machine for http-server; 2200 for SimpleHTTPServer.

`python - SimpleHTTPServer 8080` gave me 1800 requests/second.

As far as configuration goes, for a dev server(that's what both SimpleHTTPServer and http-server are for me), the only configurations I do is to change the port.

Also, it's not like http-server is a highly configurable http server and framework combined into one - I for one can live without auto-index on/off.