Self-notes...after spending a few hours researching and benchmarking various configurations. Apache is so old news.

Setup:

• Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)
• nginx as frontend webserver
• Drupal served using fastcgi to phpcgi
• ...and Drupal's Boost module.

Most of these configs is gathered from http://groups.drupal.org/node/26363.

How fast is it now? How about almost 6,000 requests/sec, with throughput around 240Mbps? Fast enough?