Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked

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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Re:Disturbing trend

[hairyfeet]

Uuhhhh....I really hate to rain on your parade and all, but you do know that Opera Unite will send everything through Opera's servers right?

Allow me to quote you a snippet of the relevant text "Although Opera Unite claims to "directly link people's personal computers together," to use it you need an account on Opera's servers, and all of your exchanges pass through Opera's servers first."

So I'm afraid it doesn't work like you think it does. All it does is move the central hub from Facebook to Opera. Considering how low their marketshare is I really doubt everyone is going to switch browsers just so they can see Aunt Marsha's new vacation photos. And considering that Opera is the only main browser besides IE that is closed source and proprietary frankly nobody should be surprised.

I predict Opera will hang on for another year or two, thanks to their mobile division, but eventually that will be taken by Google or Apple or Mobile Mozilla and then they will be kaput. Damned shame, as during the IE5 period they really had a shot of gaining a chunk of the market, but they never really knew how to market Opera effectively.