We’re setting up a new production web server for our own site and as it’s a chance to start fresh, the thought of course turned to “what’s the best web server for our site?” After looking around at various benchmarks and reviews of the more common web servers, none of the benchmarks seemed to have been run in the last few years or focussed on thousands of connections with static content. This wasn’t the scenario I wanted to see data on.

So, I set about running a few benchmarks on what I considered to be the top 3 Linux based web servers for a moderately busy site. This is why I’ve labelled the article “Part 1”, as I want to cover multiple scenarios in a few follow-up articles to encompass a variety of scenarios. For this test we’ll be using WordPress, however I’ll be testing other platforms in the follow-up articles as well.

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