For this configuration you can use web server you like, i decided, because i work mostly with it to use nginx.

Generally, properly configured nginx can handle up to 400K to 500K requests per second (clustered), most what i saw is 50K to 80K (non-clustered) requests per second and 30% CPU load, course, this was 2 x Intel Xeon with HyperThreading enabled, but it can work without problem on slower machines.

You must understand that this config is used in testing environment and not in production so you will need to find a way to implement most of those features best possible for your servers.

Here's all you have to do to add clustering to your node.js application.

• save this code as cluster.js, and run cluster.js instead of server.js (or /bin/www, or whatever it's called for your project)
• the only line you'll need to change is the last line - it needs to point to the location of your server.js file

var cluster = require('cluster');

if (cluster.isMaster) {
  // Count the machine's CPUs
 var cpuCount = require('os').cpus().length;