The showdown: apache vs. lighttpd - I’m Mike

The showdown: apache vs. lighttpd - I’m Mike: "The showdown: apache vs. lighttpd
Blogging, Web Development May 7th, 2007 - 5,026 views

Is lighttpd faster than Apache? Can Wordpress handle high traffic websites? Rumors spread like wildfire on the web, and sometimes it’s hard to separate the truth from evangelism and clever marketing. Today I’m going to put Wordpress to the test, running under Apache and lighttpd, and see if a clear winner emerges.

To find out more about how I came up with these numbers, check out my post explaining how to measure your web site’s performance.

For these tests I used ab, a popular benchmarking tool distributed as part of the Apache project. I ran each test multiple times, varying the number of concurrent connections. The results below show the maximum number of requests per second each server could handle with a default installation, with APC installed, and with WP-Cache enabled."