NGINX vs Node static server

connect-cluster.js

var cluster = require('cluster'),
    connect = require('connect');    

var numCPUs = parseInt(process.argv[2]);

if (cluster.isMaster) {
  for (var i = 0; i < numCPUs; i++) {
    cluster.fork();
  }

  cluster.on('exit', function(worker, code, signal) {
    console.log('worker ' + worker.process.pid + ' died');
  });
} else {
  var server = connect().use(connect.static(__dirname + '/'));
  server.listen(process.env.PORT || 18081);
}

connect.js

var connect = require('connect');

var server = connect().use(connect.static(__dirname + '/'));
server.listen(process.env.PORT || 18081);

nginx.conf

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip  on;
    gzip_http_version 1.0;
    gzip_types        text/plain 
                      text/xml 
                      text/css 
                      application/xml 
                      application/xhtml+xml 
                      application/rss+xml 
                      application/atom_xml 
                      application/javascript 
                      application/x-javascript 
                      application/x-httpd-php;
    gzip_disable      "MSIE [1-6]\.";
    gzip_disable      "Mozilla/4";
    gzip_comp_level   1;
    gzip_proxied      any;
    gzip_vary         on;
    gzip_buffers      4 8k;
    gzip_min_length   1100;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

node-http.js

var http = require('http'),
    fs = require('fs');

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  if (req.url === '/logo.png') {
    res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'image/png' });
    fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/logo.png').pipe(res);
  } else {
    res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' });
    fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/index.html').pipe(res);
  }
});
server.listen(process.env.PORT || 18081);

node-static-cluster.js

var cluster = require('cluster'),
    http = require('http'),
    static = require('node-static');

var file = new(static.Server)(__dirname + '/');

var numCPUs = parseInt(process.argv[2]);

if (cluster.isMaster) {
  for (var i = 0; i < numCPUs; i++) {
    cluster.fork();
  }

  cluster.on('exit', function(worker, code, signal) {
    console.log('worker ' + worker.process.pid + ' died');
  });
} else {
  var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
    file.serve(req, res); 
  });
  server.listen(process.env.PORT || 18081);
}

node-static.js

var http = require('http'),
    static = require('node-static');

var file = new(static.Server)(__dirname + '/');

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  req.on('end', function() {
    file.serve(req, res);
  });
});
server.listen(process.env.PORT || 18081);

st-cluster.js

var cluster = require('cluster'),
    http = require('http'),
    st = require('st');

var numCPUs = parseInt(process.argv[2]);

var mount = st({
  path: __dirname + '/',
  url: '/'
});

if (cluster.isMaster) {
  for (var i = 0; i < numCPUs; i++) {
    cluster.fork();
  }

  cluster.on('exit', function(worker, code, signal) {
    console.log('worker ' + worker.process.pid + ' died');
  });
} else {
  var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
    mount(req, res);
  });
  server.listen(process.env.PORT || 18081);
}

st.js

var http = require('http'),
    st = require('st');

var mount = st({
  path: __dirname + '/',
  url: '/'
});

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  mount(req, res); 
});
server.listen(process.env.PORT || 18081);