Content Types: Fill & Download for Free

OK, I'll bite. I don't know Node, and I haven't optimized anything for anything, so take this with a grain of salt (it is, after all, an ab benchmark of a hello world!)."In the red corner, wearing a V8 engine and a standard library, NodeJS!"var http = require('http'),  fs = require('fs');  http.createServer(function (request, response) {  fs.readFile("index.html", function (err, data) {  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});  response.write(data);  response.end();  }); }).listen(8000); "In the blue corner, wearing lighttpd and php5-cgi, PHP!"<?php header('Content-Type: text/html'); echo file_get_contents('index.html'); ?> 3500 req/s for Node versus 13600 req/s for Lighttpd... what the hell?!Node was giving it a 110%:...but that's not enough, considering I have a quad-core processor. Lighttpd was using it, but Node was not. Let's fix that:var cluster = require('cluster'),  numCPUs = require('os').cpus().length,  http = require('http'),  fs = require('fs');  if (cluster.isMaster) {  for (var i = 0; i < numCPUs; i++) {  cluster.fork();  } } else {  http.createServer(function (request, response) {  fs.readFile("index.html", function (err, file) {  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});  response.write(file);  response.end();  });  }).listen(8000); } OK, that's better. Node is actually a bit slower, at 11400 req/s versus Lighttpd's 13600, but it serves requests more predictably - the standard deviation is lower, and so is the time to serve the slowest request (1.1 seconds for Node versus 3.6 seconds for Lighttpd).EDIT 2: I thought this goes without saying, but this is a joke answer. No, streaming doesn't help, and neither does Express, and I will not install Apache or a JIT-ting PHP interpreter just to test it - stop looking for small flaws in the testing methodology of a "hello world", and go look at some real benchmarks of an app that makes sense :)

Sure:import socket import re  LISTEN_ADDR = '127.0.0.1' PORT = 8080  s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.bind((LISTEN_ADDR, PORT)) s.listen(0)  print "Listening on http://{}:{}/".format(LISTEN_ADDR, PORT)  while True:  conn, addr = s.accept()  print "Client connected: " + addr[0]    while True:  data = conn.recv(1024)    if not data:  break    if re.search("\r*\n\r*\n", data):  print "Request finished, sending response"  conn.sendall("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n")  conn.sendall("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n")  conn.sendall("<h1>Hello, World!</h1>")  conn.close()  break Result:Note the above has some nasty bugs in it (e.g. if the two newlines that signify the end of the HTTP headers are received in different recv calls, the program won’t understand that it should start sending the response). Not having to deal with such nonsense is why we use frameworks.

Fetch the content from your data source (database, file etc.) and write that to response. Most important is you need to set content type of page to text/xml or application/xml . Hope this will help you.You have static html? you can just paste that in html file.