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Ask HN: Fast HTTP server for Windows

3 points by sangupta ↗ HN
I need a fast HTTP server for Windows which can proxy between 7 different applications and 3 different hosts. 5 of these apps are deployed on Tomcat. nginx, lighttpd are not directly available for Windows. Apache HTTPD seems slow due when huge number of connections are made as it creates a new thread.

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benologist
What about the built in IIS web server?
sangupta
I don't have much experience with IIS, do you think it will be able to handle load as that of httpd, nginx, etc?
benologist
I have seen IIS handle 1000s of requests per second using .NET.
sangupta
Sorry, but my code is in Java, C++ and static files.
benologist
You can probably run them all through IIS, I know you can do Java, PHP etc and of course static files everything can handle.

Is there a reason you're going with Windows when it sounds like your experience is with other platforms? The best platform is the one you know best.

mbonaci
node.js?
sangupta
Isn't node.js for building apps, than being used as a static file server and reverse-proxy?