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I wonder why they left nginx off their comparisons. Is it simply because nginx is still faster I wonder

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Especially because the details under that say,

> The web servers serve a default page that comes with NGINX web server.

so yeah, if you even refer to nginx when talking about benchmarks but leave it out, I'm going to favor adverse inference and assume that it's because nginx is faster.

Maybe because of marketing reasons or because I am biased in the comparisons?

So open question: is nginx faster?

I think this is really cool. More competition in this space is better not worse, I am merely curious to know how it stacks up

You’re comparing a new project to nginx. Obviously nginx will be faster maybe not across the board but generally it probably is. As a project matures it will optimize surely! nginx has 21 years of development under its belt.

By that reasoning Apache should be faster than nginx, but alas.

https://pressable.com/blog/head-to-head-performance-comparis...

I think drawing any conclusions in the absence of benchmarks is unwise.

What?, apache have mpm_event since many years ago, you don't need prefork process model except if you want use mod_php or something not thread safe.

It is often a mistake to draw conclusions even with benchmarks. Are the benchmarks measuring what is relevant to your use case? Are the benchmarks unbiased.

Your link does not seem to contain any benchmarks anyway.

The Ferron benchmarks on their home page say Apache Pre fork MPM outperforms Apache Even MPM which seems odd to me.

Very detailed post. True dat.

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