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That's really too long to list, I could conceivably write a book about it.

But, fortunately it's relatively easy to test. You get whatever server you prefer, and install nginx and install a bunch of performance testing tools (like siege, ab etc.) and then you test different concurrency load scenarios.

No custom software, and widely regarded the fastest webserver out there.

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As I pointed elsewhere, most recent servers are just overgrown IBM 5150 PCs, with much faster CPUs, immense amounts of memory and storage and somewhat faster buses. They are desktop PCs misused as servers.

> and install nginx

Yeah there's your problem...

You can replicate the exact same experience (only worse) with any other webserver like apache, lighttpd, cherokee, etc.

Tux may be a bit faster, but it can't serve dynamic content nearly as fast as it serves files, so that's pretty much useless.

Have you tried other operating systems?

Have you tried writing your own webserver? Then tuning it to your particular use case?

Yes

hmm so I've written a webserver and am able to get thousands of concurrent requests on a small amazon instance without issues.

And you've written a webserver and you can't.

Interesting...

Can we see your results?

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