title: Apache/Tomcat/Jetty/Nginx performance on EC2
body: <p>Can someone give me some guidance on whether these numbers are expected, low or good. I've got little experience in high-volume HTTP services so don't know if this is about the limit that I could expect or if I'm doing something wrong and it can be improved a lot.</p>
  
  <p>I'm just running an apache2 vanilla install with serving a "hello world" example and a very simple servlet service running in both Tomcat/Jetty.</p>
  
  <p>For all services we're getting 4,000-7,000 requests/s served. Is this expected or quite low and we've got something wrong in the configuration. They're all just numbers to me at the moment and I don't know whether they are good or not!</p>
  
  <p>This is running on an EC2 xlarge instance, but I'd be interested to see how that compares with a standard "fairly powerful standalone server".</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>