https://github.com/boomzero/http_server

a static http server writen in a single C++ file that can respond to more than 3400 requests per second
https://github.com/boomzero/http_server

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a static http server writen in a single C++ file that can respond to more than 3400 requests per second

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/boomzero/http_server
• Owner: boomzero
• License: other
• Created: 2024-01-13T08:56:45.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-15T14:23:44.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-06T23:05:52.289Z (12 months ago)
• Language: C++
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• Size: 32.2 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
# http-server



 a website being served with http-server 

***

`http-server` is inspired by [http-server](https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server). It serves everything in the current working directory.

It accepts one argument, the port you wnat to bind to. Nothing else.

It is loosely complies with HTTP/1.0, so it should work.

## Benchmarks

`http-server` is very fast. It is even faster than lightpd in my testing.

Each thread uses around 10% CPU during peak load, so CPU use would be around 80%.

You can reduce the number of threads, however it probably wouldn't work as well.

The following results are produced on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB of RAM:

```

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1903618 $>

Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/

Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 192.168.10.5 (be patient)

Completed 10000 requests

Completed 20000 requests

Completed 30000 requests

Completed 40000 requests

Completed 50000 requests

Completed 60000 requests

Completed 70000 requests

Completed 80000 requests

Completed 90000 requests

Completed 100000 requests

Finished 100000 requests

Server Software:        http-server

Server Hostname:        192.168.10.5

Server Port:            8086

Document Path:          /

Document Length:        145 bytes

Concurrency Level:      5

Time taken for tests:   29.350 seconds

Complete requests:      100000

Failed requests:        0

Non-2xx responses:      100000

Total transferred:      23300000 bytes

HTML transferred:       14500000 bytes

Requests per second:    3407.11 [#/sec] (mean)

Time per request:       1.468 [ms] (mean)

Time per request:       0.294 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

Transfer rate:          775.25 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)

              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max

Connect:        0    0   0.2      0      11

Processing:     0    1   0.3      1      18

Waiting:        0    1   0.2      1      16

Total:          0    1   0.3      1      18

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)

  50%      1

  66%      1

  75%      1

  80%      2

  90%      2

  95%      2

  98%      2

  99%      2

 100%     18 (longest request)

```