Result
LSCache ESI outperforms Varnish ESI
BenchmarkESI
ESI Benchmark
We compared the speed at which different web servers and caching platforms respond to requests for small ESI scripts using both non-keep-alive and keep-alive connections.
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Key results
At A Glance
Published benchmark · interactive view
LiteSpeed Enterprise Performance Gain
Choose a metric to compare the results.
HIGHEST RESULT3.2x10 · Yes
Apache / Varnish0 — 3.2x
10 · No
2.9x
10 · Yes
3.2x
100 · No
2.5x
100 · Yes
2.9x
Values reflect the original test setup.View source and methodology ↗
| Concurrent Users | Keep-Alive | Apache / Varnish |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | No | 2.9x |
| 10 | Yes | 3.2x |
| 100 | No | 2.5x |
| 100 | Yes | 2.9x |
Methodology
Test Environment
Figures as published by LiteSpeed Technologies. Results depend on hardware, configuration and workload — test with your own application for the most relevant numbers.
- LiteSpeed Enterprise 5.1.13 Apache 2.4.25 PHP 7.1.2 cPanel 62 Varnish 4.1.5
- Intel Xeon X5660 Single Core @ 2.80GHz 2GB RAM 50GB HDD CloudLinux 7.3
- Intel Xeon E5-1620 Dual Core @ 3.60GHz 2GB RAM CentOS 6.8 with OpenVZ kernel 2.6.32-042stab116.1 Intel X540 10GBASE-T on board NIC
- Netgear XS708E-100NES 8-ports 10G switch
- We used a simple ESI script that had 'Hello' in the first file and 'World!' in the included file. We used such a tiny script to avoid saturating the network connection and to show raw speed differences between the different setups.
- The benchmark simulated serving 10000 requests to 10 and 100 users.
- The test was performed over a 10GBps network connection to make sure network bandwidth did not become a bottleneck.
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