%A Van Nam Nguyen %T A comparative performance evaluation of web servers %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. %D 2017 %I VNU-UET Technical Report %R TR2017-FIT-004 %L SisLab2781