One thing in certain, when looking at nginx's results, independently of the distribution, I could see what many people say about it: it's lightening fast! @Igor Sysoev I did look, actually. Both webservers started refusing new connections after a certain amount, as I mentioned there. I didn't go on further tweaking because of what Reinis Rozitis said. I changed a couple of standard (and importby goncalossilva - Nginx Mailing List - English