On 2023-10-04 14:01, Antony Stone wrote:
On Wednesday 04 October 2023 at 20:48:19, Jason Long wrote:Hello,Thanks again.Why has Apache Foundation never tested Apache performance with Nginx?I am not affiliated with the Apache Foundation in any way, but I would guess that the primary reason is that one can make statistics say almost whatever one wants them to, simply by selecting the data or analysis which supports the desired outcome. Therefore nobody is going to trust numbers put out either by the Apache Foundation, or by Nginx, showing how they compare against the competition. I'm not saying that either of these organisations would be lying, but they'd be expected to choose the tests and scenarios which show them up in the most favourable comparative light possible. A secondary reason is that one person's use of a web server is not the same as another's, so any benchmarks showing Apache vs. Nginx would be idealistic and almost certainly not what any specific real-world implementation would achieve. Suppose you wanted to compare two makes of cars to find out which is "faster, more secure and better" (to quote from the subject line of your email). Would you want such a comparison to be done by manufacturer A, manufacturer B, or an independent third party? No matter who it's done by, does their definition of "better" match with yours (assuming you're a potential purchaser of one of the cars)?
The more official, canonical reason is that NGINX is a commercial company making an "open core" product, while the ASF is a non-profit.
The ASF cannot and does not want to compete with other products or companies. It is not our mission, and we frankly do not care about market shares or the likes. We are volunteers working on making a free piece of software that can be used by whomever wants to use it.
Antony.
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