HTTP with connection: keep-open can serve 100k req/sec. But that's for one client being served repeatedly over 1 connection. And this is the inflated number that's published in webserver benchmark tests.
For more practical down to earth test, you need to measure performance w/o keep-alive. Request per second will drop to 12k / sec then.
And that's for HTTP without encryption or ssl handshake. Use HTTPS and watch it fall down to only 400 req / sec under load test [ without connection: keep-alive ].
HTTP with connection: keep-open can serve 100k req/sec. But that's for one client being served repeatedly over 1 connection. And this is the inflated number that's published in webserver benchmark tests.
For more practical down to earth test, you need to measure performance w/o keep-alive. Request per second will drop to 12k / sec then.
And that's for HTTP without encryption or ssl handshake. Use HTTPS and watch it fall down to only 400 req / sec under load test [ without connection: keep-alive ].
That's what I observer.