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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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?
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