%0 Report %9 Technical Report %@ TR2017-FIT-004 %A Nguyen, Van Nam %D 2017 %F SisLab:2781 %I University of Engineering and Technologies %T A comparative performance evaluation of web servers %U https://eprints.uet.vnu.edu.vn/eprints/id/eprint/2781/ %X This paper surveys the fundamental software designs of high performance web servers that are widely used today for communication networks. Given the fast growing demands of the Internet and wide-ranging intranets, it is essentially to fully and deeply understand which factors that mainly affect the web servers and how these systems can be designed to satisfy a maximum number of requests per second from multiple users. The paper presents empirical analysis of several popular webservers including Apache,NodeJSandNginXtopreciselyfigureoutthe trade-off of different software design to tackle the performance bottleneck and resource consuming problems.