A simple HTTP web server with an event-driven architecture and a fixed-size thread pool.

Supports both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. As the focus of this project was server performance rather than usability, however, the server only supports enough of each protocol to serve this static webpage. The contents of this webpage in the subdirectory resources.

ab load tests distributed over 20 Amazon EC2 instances indicate comparable performance to an Apache server on up to 1200 concurrent connections. A different architecture is necessary, however, for successful handling of additional connections. See the subdirectory writeup for further details about implementation and performance.

Run make in the project root directory, then run server -port <portno> with the port number of your choice.