LiteSpeed:
LiteSpeed Web Server is the leading high-performance, high-scalability web server. It can be used to replace an existing Apache server without changing any other programs or operating system details, and without breaking anything. As such, LiteSpeed Web Server can quickly replace a major bottleneck in your existing web hosting platform. With its comprehensive range of features and easy-to-use web administration console, LiteSpeed Web Server can help you conquer the challenges of deploying an effective web hosting infrastructure. It allows customers to have extremely fast loading websites.
Apache Web Server:
Apache Web Server is an open-source web server creation, deployment, and management software. Initially developed by a group of software programmers, it is now maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache Web Server is designed to create web servers that have the ability to host one or more HTTP-based websites. Notable features include the ability to support multiple programming languages, server-side scripting, an authentication mechanism, and database support. Apache Web Server can be enhanced by manipulating the code base or adding multiple extensions/add-ons.
It is also widely used by web hosting companies for the purpose of providing shared/virtual hosting, as by default, Apache Web Server supports and distinguishes between different hosts that reside on the same machine.
Comparisons between Litespeed and Apache Web Server
- LiteSpeed is more than 50% faster in PHP content delivery than Apache with mod_php from the perspective of dynamic content. In another word, we can tell that it is more than 6 times faster than Apache
- It added security like anti-DDoS features, such as bandwidth and connection throttling while it is less in apache.
- LiteSpeed web server reduces the complexity by eliminating the need for an HTTPS reverse proxy or additional 3rd party caching layers.
- LiteSpeed web server capable of handling thousands of concurrent clients with minimal memory consumption and CPU usage.
- LiteSpeed Webserver consumes fewer resources than Apache, can support more traffic, DDOS protection is integrated, and can do absolutely everything that makes Apache but better.
- Apache problem occurs in high traffic, are not very scalable, and increasingly consume more resources and reach to block the whole server.
- Apache creates a new process/thread for each connection. And each process consumes memory and CPU so if you are more the performance is affected.
LiteSpeed WordPress Cache
A couple of months ago, LiteSpeed implemented their caching software specifically for WordPress. Initial testing combined with Cloudflare saw a nice little jump in page-load times across the board. LiteSpeed has also done its own internal testing that shows performance much better than Apache and other caching plugins:
After analyzing the above pictorial representation, Of course, all Shared and Reseller customers have the ability to use LiteSpeed’s WordPress caching plugin free of charge. While LiteSpeed is just one piece of our infrastructure, it’s a very important one, and helps us deliver crazy-fast speeds so our customers can focus on what’s most important to them; running their businesses.
Litespeed Web Server Features
LiteSpeed Web Server has superior performance in terms of both raw speed and scalability. Litespeed is faster than Apache while serving PHP content. It’s an ideal hosting platform for serving WordPress, Joomla and Drupal based websites as it easily increases PHP’s performance and security.
Apache Compatibility
LiteSpeed web server is compatible with the commonly used Apache web server and its features such as mod_rewrite, .htaccess and mod_security. Litespeed web server can load the Apache configuration files as it works as a replacement for Apache. It is also compatible with the leading hosting control panels such as cPanel, Plesk and Direct Admin.
Performance & Scalability
LiteSpeed web server increases the performance & scalability of web hosting platforms through its unique event driven architecture. It has the capability of serving thousands of clients simultaneously with a minimum usage of server resources such as Memory and CPU. The uniquely developed & optimized code of LiteSpeed web server increases the PHP performance as well as serves the static websites faster than Apache. It has the capability of handling sudden spikes in traffic as well as helping in managing the DDOS attack without any DDOS mitigation hardware.
Security
LiteSpeed web server is compatible with Apache’s mod_security feature and has built in anti-DDoS capability. With customizable features such as per-IP connection, request, and bandwidth throttling, IPs that make too many connections or requests or ask for too much bandwidth are blocked, stopping attackers before they overrun your server.
Cost Effective
Switching to LiteSpeed from Apache is an easy task and very cost effective in terms of support costs. Litespeed’s licensing costs are quite lower than any hardware upgrade required to optimize a server running Apache. LiteSpeed helps in reducing the support costs with its unique features providing an optimized, secure, stable hosting platform which in turn allows support technicians and Administrators peace of mind from an overloaded server.
To learn more about Litespeed feel free to visit the official website of Litespeed at https://www.litespeedtech.com/ or contact team XeonBD as XeonBD is a proud official partner of LiteSpeed in Bangladesh.
