Litespeed webserver
Litespeed webserver
Internet is growing and the servers hosting the sites are thickly packed. If you are not hosting your site on a dedicated server chances are there that it is loading very slow at times.
Almost 90% of servers are based in linux which is embracing opensource software Apache as its webserver. Over a decade we haven’t seen any marked improvement in its performance with the growing demand.
Litespeed comes to your rescue at this juncture, they provide both free and enterprise version. They have provided a comparison chart with other websevers
http://www.litespeedtech.com/web-server-performance-comparison-litespeed-2.1-vs.html
We also had implemented it on our server and the site sparksupport.com is using litespeed. We could see a drastic difference in the performance. Another catch is that if your server is using a control panel like cpanel or plesk, litespeed can still work as it is portable with the existing webservice.
There is a very good documentation provided by litespeed which is a major advantage over its rivals like ngine-X.
Give it a try and experience the difference.
Update: Wed Apr 15 12:26:17 IST 2009
We moved our servers to Nginx – Cpanel combination. Now all our our servers are running Nginx.
Just wondering why I’m getting these server headers, which seem to indicate ngine-X usage:
Server: nginx/0.6.35
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:12:50 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.8
Have you installed nginx as webserver ? Litespeed is no way related to nginx.
Can you elaborate more on when and how you are getting this server headers.
@@timbury Yes we are running Nginx on our all our web servers. We have integrated Nginx and Cpanel and since our benchmarks are showing much better performanace for Nginx-Cpanel than Apache-Cpanel we are now using Nginx as our default web server.
@admin We had tried litespeed too. But finally decided to go ahead with Nginx
Thanks for the clarification. I think I’ll try nginx on my own server. Btw, for the admin, I’m using the Domain Details Firefox plug-in.
Go ahead ! its recommended. Also thanks for the tip. I was wondering how did you get the info so easily.