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by JoshMock 5224 days ago
Agreed. It's one thing to say "x is faster than y" wholesale rather than considering the endless possible configuration options for each that could affect performance.

Seems like it'd be a lot more constructive to say, "Hey, it's not true out of the box, but here are settings you can fiddle with that, if they work in your situation, could make Apache a better option than Nginx." Anybody want to write that blog post? :)

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Well… someone should!

I'm frankly really tired of operating on cargo cult programming when it comes to my server packages. They're totally opaque to me, since they're huge pieces of software.

Is MongoDB fast? What about Riak or Couch or whatever? What does "fast" mean?

I want charts, damnit, and comparison tables with feature matrices and stuff that can used toe evaluate and, hell, I want you to put up vagrant images so I can run these tests myself.