nixCraft: Performance Benchmarks a Web Server

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"You can benchmark Apache, IIS and other web server with apache benchmarking tool called ab. Recently I was asked to performance benchmarks for different web servers.

"It is true that benchmarking a web server is not an easy task. From how to benchmark a web server, 'First, benchmarking a web server is not an easy thing. To benchmark a web server the time it will take to give a page is not important: you don't care if a user can have his page in 0.1 ms or in 0.05 ms as nobody can have such delays on the Internet...'"

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