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Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked

Posted by timothy on from the not-bad-for-a-bonus-feature dept.

worb writes "Opera Unite comes with a web server which is supposedly going to 'redefine the web.' But how well does it actually perform? Is it a threat to other server solutions? Someone put it to the test, and published the results. While nginx, one of the fastest web servers available, is 5 times faster, a PHP+Apache+MySQL server is only 2 times as fast. A compiled C++ server, the MadFish WebToolkit, is 6 times faster. He concludes that Opera Unite's server is impressive, and that the others come nowhere close to the ease of use."

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  1. Re:Disturbing trend by AnonGCB · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that you don't need to use opera in order to access the content, you just follow a link and any browser should take you there.

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  2. Re:So Opera web browser now runs as a system servi by BikeHelmet · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is an Alpha or Beta. Opera 9.64 (final) is only 5.3MB large.

    On my computer Firefox consumes way more memory than Opera - but it has so many extensions and plugins installed, that I'd be surprised if it didn't.

  3. Re:Disturbing trend by worb · · Score: 4, Informative

    A more thoughtful take on the subject can be found here:

    I'm surprised to see that people are still linking to this. It's basically full of errors, and was written in rage over all the hype Unite was getting. He was angry about how people just repeated Opera's claims blindly. Kind of like you are blindly referring to his blog post even though it turns out that the post is too inaccurate to really be used for anything.

    You really should read some of the comments on the page you are linking to, in order to see people correcting all the misconceptions. For example the misconception that everything goes through a proxy, as you claim it does. Furthermore Chris's comments where fun until Haavard took him down a notch on his own blog, resulting in Chris himself posting on Haavard's blog with a massively different tone.

  4. Re:Disturbing trend by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 5, Informative

    all of your exchanges pass through Opera's servers first.

    Only if you're behind NAT, and your router isn't configured to allow UPnP.

    Otherwise, individual connections are truly peer-to-peer. Opera servers don't get involved. They are only used to publish the list of services available for your account, not to access them (except for the NAT workaround).