title: How to benchmark apache/nginx setup
body: <p>I am planning to setup nginx as reverse proxy. I will have apache to deliver my dynamic content, and nginx will deliver the static content.</p>
  
  <p>My configuration i have now is just Apache with fastCGI. This gives me no configuration problems and runs great.</p>
  
  <p>After I have set up nginx I want to run some benchmarks to see if I really got some performance increases, else i will switch back.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how I can benchmark this type of setup? Or maybe someone did this already and have some canned results, I will be glad to hear them.</p>
  
  <p><strong>PS.</strong> <em>I know this is more a serverfault type of question, but i have seen numerous posts about apache and nginx so i thought i give it a try</em></p>