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I am surprised how well nginx holds up?!

Why? It's one of the most optimized HTTP servers ever. Anything that claims beating nginx in benchmarks should be treated with high suspicion. I think these zeroserve numbers are likely accurate but it doesn't have the features and module ecosystem of nginx so the margins aren't worth it for me.

Because it passes more boundaries and stuff. But hey, I didn’t code a Webserver so far - so what do I know. :D

AFAIK eBPF can be hardware offloaded. If you have the use case.

This is not in-kernel eBPF, this is a userspace eNPF runtime, so I don't see why it would pass fewer boundaries

> But hey, I didn’t code a Webserver so far - so what do I know

If you limit the scope, its worth doing and might not take as much effort as you might think. You could possibly find some enjoyment and learn a few things doing so.

In college I had a networks class where the capstone project was writing a basic HTTP server in C. It's actually shockingly easy, especially if you're only supporting get, and fetch.

Mine was something like 70 lines, and would just listen on 8080 and fork when it got a connection before checking for the requested file and sending it or a 404. I was immediately tempted to try adding something like CGI support but didn't have the time that semester.

Seconded, HTTP and event HTTPS to some extent isn't so bad to wireup... HTTP2/3/QUIC is another story IMO though.

I mean, nginx dang well should? This is just an incredibly synthetic http(s)/1.1 test for what its worth.

Like you totally could turn off garbage collection for caddy especially since this is only testing incredibly short single response queries that would never need GC. Shockingly you would actually get better performance than either nginx or zeroserve, but like the uselessness of this benchmark it'd mean nothing to the real world usage of these web servers.

Unfortunately that is likely untrue. Try it yourself, Go with GC disabled isn’t some magic bullet for performance as much as I’d like it to be.

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