Apache/IIS Performance Benchmarks?

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Hi guys,

I'm wondering if there are any benchmarks out there for Apache 2.x or IIS 6+? I'm wondering how many pages these guys can serve up per second and on what hardware?

In case you're wondering, I'm developing a web based game which will be heavilly AJAX based (Gracefully degradeable). I've been looking into Comet but it seems this isn't wise on a PHP based backend, so I'm trying to find out how often I can get away with polling the server using AJAX without bringing the server to its knees. ;)

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Thanks for that link but unfortunately I don't have a choice over which server is used. At the moment I'm developing my game on the uni server which is based on IIS, but I also have a web host which provides Apache. Unfortunately that's all I have.

Are there any actual benchmarks out there?
 
I don't have any statistics that I can pull together, but I don't think it'll make much of a difference which you go for. That said, how each individual webserver is tuned will make a lot of difference, as will the hardware it's on. If you're weighing up a DL585 with IIS vs a home pc with Apache, then IIS will beat it hands down, and vice versa.

Which is running on the better hardware, and which do you have more configurability control over?
 
It's not so much the performance of the web server that matters these days. It is all much of a muchness.

What matters is the performance of your web application. The most popular web application platform for Apache is PHP. IIS's is ASP.NET. Unfortunately the performance difference between these is like night and day. PHP needs a lot of additional "pre-compilers" and "cache managers" to make it scale well on a high load web server.
 
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