Benchmarking PHP Webservers

Last updated on Jan 26, 2019 1 min read
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This post completes the benchmarks for webservers. The last post compared the performance of various reverse proxies, this article benchmarks the execution of php scripts.

The setup is a simple php script which calls phpinfo(). PHP is executed through php-fpm and it communicates with the webserver through a unix socket.

The index.php script:

<?php
phpinfo();

I compared the performance of Caddy, NGINX, Apache and Lighttpd. Concerning the rest of the configuration, the same is used as in the post before.

wrk generated requests for 10 seconds:

wrk -t2 -c100 -d10s http://localhost:8080

Here is the throughput:

Table of throughput using http

Diagram of throughput using http

And the latency, so how long the browser has to wait until it receives the requested site:

Table of latency using http

Diagram of latency using http

The same benchmarks were also run with https instead of http. HAProxy was used as a reverse proxy, so this should show similar results as before, just a bit slower.

Throughput:

Table of throughput using https

Diagram of throughput using https

Latency:

Table of latency using https

Diagram of latency using https

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