Analysis and Simulink Modeling of the Performance of Dynamic Web Server Using JSP and PHP

Abstract

In recent years, web technology carried on growing and at same time, the number of internet users increased significantly in number. Today, a Web server is capable of processing millions of requests per day, but during the peak period may collapse and becomes critical causing unavailability of the services offered by the servers. That is why Web server performance is a topic of great interest to many researchers. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the impact of JSP and PHP dynamic content technology: JSP and PHP with access to a database of performance data of Apache Web server. Using the “ApacheBench” performance measurement tool, the approach is to compare the performances of four different configurations of a Web server, such as: Apache Web server implementing JSP technology with access to PostgreSQL database, Apache using PHP technology with the PostgreSQL as database, Apache Web server using the JSP technology with access to MySQL database, finally Apache and PHP with DBMS MySQL. At the end of this article, we also present a Simulink model of Web server performance based on the simple M/M/1 queue. During the modeling, the MATLAB software was used.