Did some silly overhead benchmarks, mostly with Apache (v2.4.62, with mod_mpm_event), but some Node.js (v18.20.6) and NGINX (v1.26.3) stuff is provided for reference. Tested direct serving of files from disk, as a baseline, compared to CGI, FastCGI, SSI, writing a custom Apache module, Node.js reverse-proxied, and plain Node.js without SSL bypassing Apache entirely, and finally, serving plain files off of disk with NGINX default configurations. In all cases I served a JSON string of around 4KiB in size, pre-serialized. All done on a 2vCPU cloud KVM VM, Slackware, with 4GiB of memory, over the internet, with 75ms to 80ms in ping latency.
The results, and my thoughts, for the curious: https://dreamscape.link/benchmarks/apache.html
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