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Web Performance, Inc.
Company blog · webperformance.com/load-testing/blogprogrammingweb
Web Performance, Inc. is the company blog at webperformance.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The fastest web server is IIS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links a 2011 Web Performance article on load testing, citing it as having conclusions similar to their own: the web server is rarely the bottleneck. The link is cited, not judged.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The fastest web server is IIS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-01
What Hacker News says?
Without breaking any promises to others here is an article with conclusions quite similar to mine: http://www.webperformance.com/load-testing/blog/2011/11/what... Keep in mind that it hardly ever is the webserver that is the bottle neck. My theory on why this is the case is very simple: MS can afford to throw vast amounts of money at optimizations that are next to impossible in Linux simply because the coupling betw…
Comment linking /load-testing/blog/2011/11/what-is-the-fastest-webserver/
on “StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers”Submitted Load testing with real browsers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Pagespeed Scalability with Memory Locking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The fastest web server is IIS as a story · 1 points
HN discussion