First test SSLB and NGINX

Yes, I knew, NGINX will destroy my little experiment, just to remember since the beginning it's only an experiment and some kind of self challenging. (with some dream to achieve a great performance)

The machine

Just a basic 8 core machine provided by Digital Ocean with Ubuntu 14.04

Tools

Two backends written in Node.JS and the tool used to run the benchmark was Loader.io (https://loader.io)

'use strict';

const http = require("http");
const server = http.createServer(function(request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});
  response.write(process.env.WRITE);
  response.end();
});

server.listen(process.env.PORT, "127.0.0.1");

PORT=9001 WRITE="loader-token" node nodehello.js

NGINX Conf

No tunning, just a default configuration (yeah, it's enough for while and I'm very lazy at moment to configure it)

worker_processes  8;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    upstream myapp1 {
        server 127.0.0.1:9001;
        server 127.0.0.1:9002;
    }

    server {
        listen 80;

        location / {
            proxy_pass http://myapp1;
        }
    }
}

SSLB Conf

Just what i have at the moment

{
    "general": {
        "maxProcs": 8
    },
    "frontends" : [{
        "name" : "Front1",
        "host" : "127.0.0.1",
        "port" : 9000,
        "route" : "/",
        "timeout" : 5000,
        "workerPoolSize": 1000,
        "dispatcherPoolSize": 1000,
        "backends" : [{
            "name" : "Back1",
            "address" : "http://127.0.0.1:9001",
            "heartbeat" : "http://127.0.0.1:9001",
            "inactiveAfter" : 3,
            "heartbeatTime" : 5000,
            "retryTime" : 5000
        },{
            "name" : "Back2",
            "address" : "http://127.0.0.1:9002",
            "heartbeat" : "http://127.0.0.1:9002",
            "inactiveAfter" : 3,
            "heartbeatTime" : 5000,
            "retryTime" : 5000
        }]
    }]
}

Results (NGINX FTW)

You can check the results at Loader.io

NGINX - http://ldr.io/1ME9hD6

SSLB - http://ldr.io/1jAOiu9

Notes

Yeah, NGINX win with no doubt, it's a powerfull server, I'll try some moves to make the performance of SSLB better.