Benchmarking Nginx on a prehistoric PIII 500

[Denis S. Filimonov]

On Thursday 13 March 2008 23:31:27 Cliff Wells wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 19:54 -0500, Denis S. Filimonov wrote:
> > I'm surprised noone has asked the most obvious question yet: Why vmware?
> > It's a huge unknown factor in the measurement which renders the whole
> > experiment questionable at best.
>
> I think this is actually a good benchmark specifically because it's in
> VMware (although I think Xen or OpenVZ would have been more
> appropriate).  It's not a pure HTTP server test, rather a test of how
> the various servers operate in the constrained environment of a VPS.
> With the massive increase in VPS hosting and the fact that lots of
> people utilizing VPS hosting would benefit from a lightweight HTTP
> server makes this particular benchmark quite useful.
>
If that was the intent, it should be reflected in the title, because now it's 
outright misleading. Also the version of VMWare is essential.

-- 
Denis.