Without any reference to the nginx options ssl_session_cache keepalive_timeout keepalice_requests and whether or not the other webservers mentioned supp

Without any reference to the nginx options ssl_session_cache keepalive_timeout keepalice_requests and whether or not the other webservers mentioned support such options and if they are enabled in the tests. There is no way to know if this is alarming or just FUD. Also missing from this comparison is a vanilla Apache SSL benchmark (which will suck, but would serve as a reference point). Given nginx's track record, I prepared to give nginx the benefit of the doubt and assume that it's a invalid test. That said, I'm going to run some benchmarks of my own.