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What Is LiteSpeed Web Server And Why You Need It?

High Performance And Low Memory Consumption PHP Web Server With Great Scalability

LiteSpeed Web Server is a great solution, through which you get high scalability and high performance. It can easily and quickly replace the bottleneck in your existing web server, because it's completely Apache interchangeable. This software is used by many administrators along with the control panels of the web server (such as cPanel). LiteSpeed is available for Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD and of course Linux. The software provider launches releases regularly, so your site will be using its full capacity every single moment. According to W3Techs (World Wide Web Technology Surveys), 2% of all web sites use LiteSpeed Web Server, ranking it on fourth place among the most popular web servers. Read our LiteSpeed FAQs

10 Times Faster Than Apache

LiteSpeed web servers are the only high-performance Apache alternative server, offering many benefits, including:

Why LiteSpeed?

Why LiteSpeed?

It has been proved that LiteSpeed Web Server has incredible performance in terms of both scalability and raw speed. The test showed that it is 10 times faster than Apache. LiteSpeed is more than 50% faster in PHP content delivery than Apache (even with with mod_php) when it comes to dynamic content.

Recommendation of LiteSpeed?

Recommendation

CooliceHost strongly recommends LiteSpeed web server for high-volume, high-traffic web sites with a huge amount of visitors, as well as for those of you, who want to maximize their web server's efficiency and performance. LiteSpeed is more cost efficient solution than adding hardware when it comes to speeding up your web server.

Why Do You Need Speed?

Why Do You Need Speed?

You don't have to be a SEO guru to understand why your web site speed is important for your ranking in search engines. The easier the search engines' bots craw your web site, the better rank you will get in search results. What's more, you will not annoy your visitors and they will stay on your web site.

Enhanced Security

Enhanced Security

Its streamlined event-driven architecture, that can serve thousands of clients concurrently with minimal memory consumption and CPU usage. The optimized code serves static content faster, taking advantage of high-performance kernel syscalls to serve static content up to 67% faster than Nginx, and around 5x faster than Apache.

Better Application Performance

Better Application Performance

LSCache is a feature designed to speed up dynamic websites. When you utilize it, all the pages built on Joomla, Magento, WordPress, Opencart, Prestashop, Drupal or any similar platform, will be optimized in loading times and performance. Our cloud hosting supports LSCache as an add-on to your configuration.

More Efficient Serving

More Efficient Serving

LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is also well-recognized solutions for lightweight, high-performance Apache alternative compatible with all major hosting control panels (cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, and more). By using LSWS you will save money and improves your performance while lowering hardware usage.

Litespeed Web Werver For High Speed and Performance

Wonderful opportunity to speed up your web applications

In terms of web hosting servers, LiteSpeed has confirmed itself as one of the leaders in the niche by powering 6.4% of the active websites. After going through the differences between LiteSpeed and Apache, we have decided to concentrate on the LSWS (LiteSpeed Web Servers) technology this time.

More About LiteSpeed Web Server

LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a drop-in replacement of Apache with high-performing results. As we have already mentioned, it's on fourth place among the most popular web servers on the Internet and at the same time it is number one commercial web server. By updating your recent web server to LSWS, you will achieve great performance and decrease the operational costs, and these are just some of the benefits.

Apache Compatible Solution

LiteSpeed Web Server is 100% compatible with the main Apache features like .htaccess, mod_rewrite, mod_security. If you want to replace the Apache configuration files directly, you will be happy to understand that it can be done through your hosting control panel within less than 15 minutes and no downtime at all. It is really unique and very different from most frontend proxy-based solutions. LiteSpeed Web Server works by replacing all the Apache functions - easy and with no trouble at all.

Double your capacity and eliminate 3rd party caching layers, such as CDNs, with this Apache alternative. Now you can securely handle a hude amount of traffic while consuming minimal memory and CPU. The revolutionary architecture of LiteSpeed Web Server can also delivers more performance from your existing infrastructure, dramatically optimizing server load in half and improving TTFB by up to 3 times.

Increasing Your Web Server Stability & Performance

Thanks to its well-structured and smart architecture, LSWS allows you to serve thousands of clients on your web server without overloading your CPU usage and memory consumption. LiteSpeed Web Server helps you optimize the code that serves your content (static or/and dynamic). You will also achieve greater performance for your PHP, users, traffic and DDoS protections. The best part is that you don't need to add additional software to your virtual machine. LiteSpeed will do it all for you.

Increasing Web Server Security

LiteSpeed Web Server helps you improve your web server security. It has anti-DDoS features (connection and bandwidth throttling) and it's mod_security compatible. LiteSpeed Technologies Inc. is strongly dedicated to bring nothing but the best features when it comes to security. Updates are being made regularly and usually released after new attacks are being detected and analyzed (SSL BEAST attacks for example). LiteSpeed Web Server can run on Atomic Secured Linux and Atomicorp's Realtime ModSecurity Rules.

LiteSpeed is also the first to provide a production-ready implementation of this new Internet protocol, previously known as HTTP-over-QUIC.

Reducing Support & Hardware Costs

LiteSpeed's license (supported by cPanel as well as by DirectAdmin) is a much cheaper and smarter alternative to adding additional hardware and installing it to your virtual machine. CooliceHost is dedicated to provide its clients with the latest and fastest technologies on reasonable prices. LiteSpeed Web Server will make your processes run better and smooth. Or if we put it other way LSWS reduces your long-term support and hardware costs by minimazing your hosting control panel, interface and tech support issues (overloading and system errors).

Increasing Profits & Saving Time

Reducing you support and hardware expences and achieving greater performance and efficiency will definitely lead to higher net profits. If you are a web site owner you should necessarily ask yourself these questions: How much more can I earn if web site is 2-3 times faster? Will my visitors have a better expirience if my web site is faster? The responsible businessman should not ignore these issues.

When you need different solution from what you already use - LiteSpeed Web Server Hosting is the right choice for you.

Questions & Answers

Everything you need to know about LiteSpeed

As we mentioned above, Apache is slower than LiteSpeed in pretty much every single aspect, and if you feel like the Apache web servers do not fit your needs try our LSWS configurations. We offer excellent performance for high-traffic websites and dynamic content at a reasonable price. If you want to grow your website continuously without ever worrying whether the hosting will handle it, then you are at the right place. Lastly, LSWS is perfectly compatible with the most famous CMSs out there, so what are you waiting for?

Please, read more about the LiteSpeed hosting we have at Our blog.

LiteSpeed is a proprietary, commercial server solution, which is perfectly compatible with the web technology of Apache. The LSWS is so optimized that it is more than perfect for busy websites because it is much faster while using less of its resources.

With LiteSpeed, you don’t have to worry about what control panel you are using because it is compatible with all of them, including DirectAdmin, cPanel, and Plesk Hosting’s sPanel.

Perfectly compatible with Apache – since Apache is utilized by most websites, developing a server that could be a quick drop-in replacement was a no-brainer. Installing LiteSpeed is more than easy for system administrators because it requires a single command and configuration of the path to the Apache HTTPd.conf file. After doing this, your website will not only function with Apache but also with LiteSpeed. There are no other code customizations or site alterations you need to make.

Highly effective – Essentially, LiteSpeed offers the reach of speeds that are unheard of while also utilizing less CPU power and RAM, which means that this is one of the best if not the best server technologies. If you own a busy website, you wouldn’t like to spend ungodly amounts of money for a regular webserver, would you?

Great for static content – static content is where LiteSpeed has no competition in the whole world. Benchmark scores prove that LSWS is five times faster than Apache. Nginx is not even close to beating the LSWS. The difference between them is around 67% in favor of LiteSpeed.

Lightning-fast PHP processing – LSWS might be the fastest in terms of static content while also taking the crown for being the best in processing PHP scripts. Nowadays, nearly every website utilizes PHP, of course with some exceptions, which means that the boost in terms of speed won’t meet rejection. If words are not convincing, we will talk in numbers. The average Apache web server is around 40 times slower when it comes to processing PHP code.

Enhanced security – Since LiteSpeed is offered more as commercial software, unlike Apache and Nginx, it can afford to spend more money in essential areas such as security. To stay safe from web attacks, LSWS supports mod_security rules, and let’s not forget about the built-in DDoS protection system.

The only drawback we can think of is the cost. Since it is a proprietary technology, you would be obligated to pay to host multiple sites or supply your server with enough CPU and RAM.

That won’t be much of a problem because serving thousands of visitors on an SSD cloud VPS with 2GB RAM and LiteSpeed does not require a lot of effort. As time passes, your website will generate more traffic, which means it will consume more RAM. When this happens, Scala Hosting will transfer the database activity to a new virtual machine. After that, LiteSpeed will have access to both servers’ system memory and will be able to handle more traffic.

There are several things you have to know to reach the maximum performance from LiteSpeed.

Apache is slower than LSWS in numerous aspects but in shared hosting configurations, though Apache still holds first place. LiteSpeed is most efficient when it needs to serve a single website. If you plan to host numerous projects, there probably won’t be any significant difference whatsoever.

Over 60% of the existing online pages use one of the six most famous site-building platforms. They are Magento, OpenCart, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, and Prestashop. There is no doubt that WordPress is the king here because it powers near 40% of the existing websites. LiteSpeed is compatible with all of the platforms mentioned above and will be the perfect web server choice for you.

With CooliceHost’s Cloud plan, every DirectAdmin user automatically gets LSWS. With our control panel, you save 15$ monthly from licensing fees alone. The DirectAdmin is effortlessly run on the LiteSpeed technology because of its full compatibility.

Our technicians have installed, configured, and managing your LSWS. For your site to work as expected in the new environment, we will make sure that it is migrated flawlessly to your new cloud. After done all of the previous steps, you will be able to utilize LiteSpeed’s performance and security to develop your project even further without spending large amounts of money.

A LiteSpeed cluster is a custom server solution where you don’t need to worry about outgrowing the confines of a single server. To maintain lightning-fast loading time for your pages, we have developed the configuration in 3 levels. Down below, we have mentioned how it works:

Level1: Load Balancers – to reach maximum availability, we set up two load balancers. We also offer an option for one load balancer. The balancers help the server handle more traffic by spreading the requests evenly.

Level2: LiteSpeed Web Servers – in this level, we have set up several LiteSpeed cloud VPS servers with 2GB RAM each. They can handle ungodly amounts of daily traffic because their cache is enabled.

Level3: MariaDB Database Servers – in this level, we have placed the redundant database we are giving you. Its design helps it handle table queries on its own.

If you own a busy website, this cluster configuration is perfect for you. It offers unlimited scalability with enough server resources to handle ungodly amounts of traffic.

If your website generates a lot of traffic, but you want to generate even more without breaking the bank – get in touch with us through email or ticketing system. We will design a custom solution for your project only. And one more thing, we would offer a cost-free data migration if you are transferring your site from some other hosting.

For the most part, LiteSpeed is a paid product, but there is a free alternative called Starter license. By taking advantage of this option, you will be able to host one domain and a website on a our 2GCloud. It is not a free trial, so you can utilize it as long as you want. However, all of our enterprise ADC options have a 30-day money back guarantee period. There is no risk to try it.

As we said earlier, LiteSpeed is better than Apache in numerous aspects. It offers better performance while also taking fewer server resources. Because LSWS is not entirely free, it has more money to invest in security, which means the technology is much safer. It has its DDoS protection system, which can handle much more load without impacting the website.

LSCache is a feature designed to speed up dynamic websites. When you utilize it, all the pages built on Joomla, Magento, WordPress, or any similar platform, will be optimized in loading times and performance. If your hosting supports the LiteSpeed technology, it probably offers LSCache as an add-on to your configuration.

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