How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS
nginx is actually pretty bad at all benchmarks I've thrown at it, you can see some here: <a href="http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=918355" rel="nofollow">http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=918355</a> this was on an 8 core intel Xeon 5520 server system it maxed 8 cores (18ghz) @ 7500 requests per second for static content.