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    What is the fastest web server?

    As usual, I'm skeptical on any benchmarks. But this doesn't look too bad. It may not cover everything that gets done on a web server, but it's something to look at (also, bar charts!)

    http://www.webperformance.com/load-t...est-webserver/

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    Quote Originally Posted by twinscythe12332 View Post
    It may not cover everything that gets done on a web server...
    Something of an understatement

    There's also the "done with out-the-box settings" issue which I suggest might also be skewing results some.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
    There's also the "done with out-the-box settings" issue which I suggest might also be skewing results some.
    At least it should be uniform =P

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    I'm fairly confident MS pays far more attention to default settings than the community projects do...

    ...and MS doesn't have to deal with the inherent problems of obtaining consensus out of a committee of unpaid, maniacal volunteers either.

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    Well if you read their own comment about why they still use Apache: The difference is actually so infinitesimal as to be more than likely swamped by normal latency times. Thus you'd probably not even notice the difference between the fastest & slowest servers in those tested. And thus (for them at least) the overruling factor is: "Which server gives us the features we need?"
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    Hey Guys well i think that the Apache server is the most efficient.It is free so it is regularly being customized to best fit the credentials for the best possible web server.Thanks!!

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    Any differences observed between Apache server for Linux/Unix or for MS-Windows ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by polpak View Post
    Any differences observed between Apache server for Linux/Unix or for MS-Windows ?
    IIS is the Microsoft server product tested and came out the clear winner.
    (Hence the controversy, as it were).

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