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Definitely a lot of performance benefits, in basic I no longer use Apache - I either use Litespeed or Nginx.
Probably only worth the money if you are using it with cpanel?
Well, you are not allowed to Host any kind of Porn.
Could you please provide some benchmarks from LiteSpeed side? How it handles 1k and 5k concurrent connections.
Sorry cant help regarding Litespeed, however what I can say is that NGiNX is the shit! couldn't recommend it more.
Wow! Radical opinion... Care to explain a bit more?
Take a 14 day trial with them and compare yourself : ).
We can't be more happy with LiteSpeed. Albeit NGINX is a good performer, it lacks functionality making it harder to be used as a drop-in replacement.
Radical how?
Guess you could ask @Francisco from what he writes his experience doesn't seem all that good
Or was it lighttp?
Nginx Plus is the shit
I was using litespeed for 7 days and canceled it.
Radical to say that Nginx is a complete shit. NGiNX is a good, very good to serve static content, thought it's not widely adopted among shared hosting providers due to lack of Apache like module support.
i like https://lighttpd.net its very easy to install and configure. should be fine for production, they have benchmark section on their site if you need stats.
He said, "nginx is the THE SHIT". Totally opposite of "nginx is shit".
Unfortunately I didn't get any benchmarks
When I say "NGiNX is THE shit, I mean its the best
It's all just a misunderstanding!
I feel a few people who use LiteSpeed expect to see improvements straight away, it's made for big sites, so if you have a little site there will be a feeling like "I don't see any improvements" but if you had 2,000 visitors at once you would feel the difference.
But that last time I used LiteSpeed was in about 2011 I think. I don't use it now because for the traffic I get I don't need to optimise the server yet.
You can try VPSSIM with Nginx and it's free.
Well for beginnerd Apache is the way to go...hassle free...requires less configuration...
But if there were modules like there are in apache it would crush the Apache.... IMHO
The pricing for it is insane and from my experience most of its use cases are for very specific goals. What is your experience with it? What specific Nginx Plus features are you using?
Litespeed + CentOS 7 + cloudlinux had a lot of issues but they seem to be mostly resolved.
Litespeed + cPanel + Cloudlinux + CentOS 6 is a rock.
Francisco
Any benchmarks if you have / had VS Apache?
Litespeed has an annoying bug when you use "DefaultType" in a configuration it always defaults to text/plain, regardless of what you specify. Seems to have been that way for years.
Could be wrong, a few incarnations like litespeed were made in between Apache of old and the now-available choices of MPM's in later versions that handle concurrency better. A lot of the Googleable comparisons are dated and often don't give a well-tuned Apache fair comparison. While I don't have definitive info for performance, its compatibility with Apache syntax does make it an attractive alternative to it.
There is also OpenLiteSpeed.
Sadly it is nearly abandoned and they don't have plans to implement any new technology, not even HTTP/2. It's a shame, because I'm a happy lighttpd user.
Not using it ;p but if you digging "more" about open source version sure it has limitation on large scale business example like purge cache etc, even when you have an alternative solution it required advanced experience & skills. For small and medium site the opensource is great with help from free forum spirit
will http/1 become unsupported? i never heard about http/2 until now.
No, HTTP/1 will not become unsupported but this doesn't change the fact that the project has been abandoned for years.
HTTP/2 is a great improvement to the protocol and already supported by the big players, lighttpd not planning support for it is basically signing his dead sentence, I'd say like a browser maker refusing to implement HTML 5.
I had been happily running lighttpd for many years and like it better than nginx, but the developers clearly don't give a shit any longer.
3-4 years ago, when I last ran Litespeed, there was an issue with setting proper cache-control response headers.
I don't know if that and the other header issues have been corrected.
Personally, I've seen massive improvements with LiteSpeed - it's not for a low-scale host, but if you host a large amount of customers on one machine it is very very cost effective!
Performance is a good increase and is 100% compatible with Apache + CloudLinux.
Would personally recommend it.