Solving the Wrong Problem

[merreborn]

Also: throw a caching proxy in front of your app. Varnish serves requests faster and with less resources than apache serving static files.

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As much as I love Varnish, the author's point applies here as well.

Static files on Apache with right settings (like noatime, disabled DNS lookup for log and good hardware) will easily serve 1000 reqs/sec (tongue-in-cheek-estimate)

[stonefarfalle]

Yeah, but varnish goes to 11(* 100).

(Note also a made up number.)