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Deathmatch may be an overstatement but here are the results from some performance benchmarking.
The Setup:
Server:

CENTOS 5.1
Dual 2.4GHz Xeon CPUs
4GB RAM
RAID5 (4 x 15k disks)
Server and test client were connected via a consumer grade 10/100 switch

Configurations:

Basic static vhost
Keepalive turned on and with timeout of 15 seconds
GZIP turned on

I used autobench to perform the tests. Basically this [...]

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That’s be scary.

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So I have started playing around with Nginx a bit, normally I am an Apache user. It seems to be the latest fad in web servers for the ruby on rails community. It’s a constant rotation. Last year it seemed that the web server of choice was lighttpd, I am sure for some it [...]

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Who Cares?! I don’t want to ride in this crap.

Andy Hampsten on the Gavia on his way to winning the 1988 Giro.

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In this article at the Washington Post they describe the experiences of a few travelers that have their laptops taken and they forced to type in their passwords so TSA/Customs could search for “information possibly tied to terrorism, narcotics smuggling, child pornography or other criminal activity”. The individuals in the article are rightfully concerned about [...]

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