HTTP Servers

A thorough technical guide to writing nginx modules in C.

Primary English documentation site for nginx. Contains many links to sample configuration files and other help.

Handy guide looking at the results of the Yahoo yslow FireFox plugin and how to handle some of the performance issues using Ruby on Rails or web server (nginx) configuration tricks.

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The focus of httperf is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance tool that facilitates the construction of both micro- and macro-level benchmarks.

The official site for the world’s most widely used web server.

mod_rails is an Apache module that supports Rails applications without requiring a separate application server. This could be the biggest thing in Rails hosting since Mongrel.

Apache 2 module that enables your application server to tell Apache when to send a static file. Use with Rails Xsendfile plugin.

A web server alternative that claims twice the performance of Apache.

Presentation slides, recording, and quick reference for Httperf talk at www2007 conference.