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Apache Benchmark is slow from public network, magnitudes faster locally. What are some things I do to speed this up?

I am testing my Linode Ubuntu 14 64bit server out, it's the most basic server available from them. I am using Apache Benchmark to test the server, as well as a multithreaded script I wrote in Python, ...
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Determining a realistic measure of requests per second for a web server

I'm setting up a nginx stack and optimizing the configuration before going live. Running ab to stress test the machine, I was disappointed to see things topping out at 150 requests per second with a ...
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use a offside proxy server to optimize site delivery?

Actually we have following setup for our website that gets traffic around the world: All JS, Images, Photos are stored on a CDN: Cloud Files ("Akamai light" powered). The WebApp server who send the ...