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NginX vs Apache: Magento Benchmark Tests

Apache VS NginX webserver
NginX is faster!

Just Moved Magento 1.4.0.1 store from Apache web server to NginX web server.

We used AB (Apache benchmark) utility for benchmark tests.

NginX is 20 times faster than Apache! (see the finished requests values)

Here are detailed results:

Magento store on Apache webserver:

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Finished 62 requests

Server Software:        Apache/2.2.14
Server Hostname:        site.com
Server Port:            80
Document Path:          /
Document Length:        46483 bytes
Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   60.16008 seconds
Complete requests:      62
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Keep-Alive requests:    0
Total transferred:      2949040 bytes
HTML transferred:       2914705 bytes
Requests per second:    1.03 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       9680.001 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       968.000 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          47.97 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
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Connect:       35   35   1.1     36      41
Processing:  3521 8948 2463.1   9154   14473
Waiting:     3368 8164 2326.6   7970   13136
Total:       3557 8983 2463.3   9189   14508
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%   9189
  66%   9977
  75%  10646
  80%  11205
  90%  11634
  95%  12984
  98%  14181
  99%  14508
 100%  14508 (longest request)

Magento store on NginX webserver:

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Finished 1190 requests

Server Software:        nginx/0.7.65
Server Hostname:        site.turnkeye.com
Server Port:            80
Document Path:          /
Document Length:        50855 bytes
Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   60.227 seconds
Complete requests:      1190
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Keep-Alive requests:    0
Total transferred:      60944058 bytes
HTML transferred:       60584058 bytes
Requests per second:    19.83 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       504.204 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       50.420 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          991.91 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
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Connect:       41   91  45.8     80     176
Processing:   315  410  46.4    419     516
Waiting:       41   48   5.7     47      60
Total:        441  502  10.4    501     589
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    501
  66%    505
  75%    506
  80%    506
  90%    510
  95%    512
  98%    515
  99%    545
 100%    589 (longest request)

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