[CentOS] Apache Server Tuning for Performance

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 21.01.2009 um 00:47 schrieb Jure Pečar:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:09:38 +0530
> linux-crazy <hicheerup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am facing  facing performance issues with our web servers which is
>> working for concurrent  250 requests properly and then stops
>> responding when the requests are more than 250 .
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Can any one guide me tuning to be  done for the maximum utilization
>> of the Resources  and better performance of the Servers.
>
> Also take a look at apache alternatives like lighttpd and nginx. In  
> certain
> cases they do miracles.



I don't know about lighttpd (our results were mixed) - but NGINX is  
really _very_ fast.
Last time I checked, it seems to be the fastest way to accelerate  
webpage-delivery on generic hardware and with OSS-software.

But it's not a feature-monster like apache, so you still need that.
;-)


Rainer