http://simonwillison.net/2009-02-25T22:21:44+00:00Simon Willison2009-02-25T22:21:44+00:002009-02-25T22:21:44+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/25/williamosy/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://william-os4y.livejournal.com/6485.html">FAPWS3-0.2 (WSGI server based on libev)</a></strong></p> Another strong contender for Python’s answer to Mongrel—3500 requests/s for static files, 43 for a simple dynamic (Django powered) pages and 4.8 for a heavy SQL query—all benchmarked with 300 concurrent requests. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fapws">fapws</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mongrel">mongrel</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webservers">webservers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wsgi">wsgi</a></p>

2007-12-09T14:57:44+00:002007-12-09T14:57:44+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/9/fair/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer-for-nginx-and-mongrel">A Fair Proxy Balancer for Nginx and Mongrel</a></strong></p> nginx uses round robin for proxying by default; this extension module ensures requests are queued up and sent through to backend mongrel servers that aren’t currently busy. I don’t see any reason this wouldn’t work with servers other than mongrel. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fair">fair</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/load-balancing">load-balancing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mongrel">mongrel</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nginx">nginx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/proxies">proxies</a></p>

2007-02-05T00:38:31+00:002007-02-05T00:38:31+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/5/joyeur/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://joyeur.com/2007/02/04/a-brief-update-with-some-numbers-for-hardware-load-balanced-mongrels">A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels</a></strong></p> 4000 requests/second on 48 mongrels behind a hardware load balancer. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mongrel">mongrel</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails">rails</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a></p>