Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared

Update : This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones. Note : Some operating systems (FreeBSD and Linux) support kernel TLS (kTLS) and the related SSL_sendfile path in nginx, which can improve HTTPS performance for static files. Since this feature is not available on all the systems included in the comparison…