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I would like to see some benchmarks, please.

My experience is that Cherokee is a pet httpd for a few devout newbs who find Apache to heavy on Windows XP, and pretty much nothing else.

Saying it's faster than nginx is a big claim, and I would like to see its proxying, load-balancing, URL rewriting, and big file serving performance. For starters.

http://www.cherokee-project.com/benchmarks.html pretty easy to find them.

Will do another benchmark of my own, but on Windows it had a pretty much standard, Apache-grade webserver performance.

could you try with a higher concurrent client count as well?

ab -n 10000000 -c 1000 is my standard, since we serve ads.

if you work for a company where writing extensions to the server is common-place, i would say the code quality of cherokee is a strong feature as well.

Cherokee also tries to use HTTP 1.1 keepalive to upstream processes. NGiNX uses HTTP 1.0. I doubt this matters in most use cases however.