Caching reverse proxy - Nginx vs Varnish - basic benchmark

gistfile1.nginxconf

# Varnish config

backend default {
   .host = "127.0.0.1";
   .port = "80";
}

# Nginx config

http {
  proxy_cache_path  /var/cache/nginx/workspace levels=1:2 keys_zone=workspace:8m max_size=1000m inactive=600m;
  proxy_temp_path /var/cache/nginx/workspace/tmp;

  server {
    listen       8080;
    server_name  localhost;

    location / {
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:80;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_cache workspace;
      proxy_cache_valid  200 302  60m;
      proxy_cache_valid  404      1m;
    }
  }
}

# Benchmark
ab -c 100 -n 10000 http://127.0.0.1:8080/