Litespeed vs Apache

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  1. gnatster

    gnatster Regular Member

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    I have a unique opportunity to move my site to it's own box. Doesn't really need it yet but this is one of those can't pass up deals.

    They are offering me Litespeed instead of Apache if I desire.

    Do I desire?

    Why?
     
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    My new host offers Lightspeed and I asked the same question. It works to make static pages load up to 7 times faster and PHP load 50% faster. ANd I have to tell you I believe it. My site has never loaded so fast. BTW I use Hawkhost and couldn't be happier it is the best of the past 3 hosts I've had.
     
  3. MjrNuT

    MjrNuT Grand Master

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    Agreed w/ 2dub. My host is Litespeed. MDDhosting.com
     
  4. Abomination

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    I almost paid 2x to get an account with litespeed over apache, which had far less features.

    Urljet has light speed
    ServINT has apache
     
  5. kaambiz

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    Litespeed without a doubt. been using it for two years.
     
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    MordyT Grand Master

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    Anyone here ever used nginx and how does it compare to litespeed?
     
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    Litespeed is very good, and certainly handles things better than Apache in many respects, however, I would like to see more benchmarks and stats between very recent versions of Apache, lighttpd, LiteSpeed, nginx :)
     
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    Im torn between hostmonster and Hawkhost, EDIT: Ive chosen HawkHost now =)
     
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    Never bothered with Litespeed. nginx runs circles around pretty much everything. It is multiple orders of magnitude faster and more efficient than Apache, and not having Apache manage fastcgi is always a plus.
     
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    I think you'll like them. Great service, fast, and great prices.
     
  11. Nick

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    One of my sites runs on a Litespeed server. No qualms. :)
     
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    Decision made, going with Litespeed and moving the site this coming weekend.
     
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    LiteSpeed > Apache any day of the week.
     
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    carolynccourtney Newcomer

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    This is interesting, although I have curious if anyone has a site / server busy enough for the test. Urine even then a lot of visitors to the site when the site goes down for the pumping of web servers, except for apache -> litespeed.
    Maybe get a host that is willing to change its highly optimized apache + worker in a busy server with litespeed then compare the difference in resources?
     
  15. SolidShellSecur

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    LiteSpeed is really overrated. You can reach same with nginx or another free service.
     
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    Litespeed, Nginx and any other webserver/webserver addon. In my personal opinion should a host require the the use of one of these I would recommend that you ask for some stats of their server, generally Apache should be able to cope with a lot of traffic to a server.

    A reason a lot of hosts move to utilise these other webservers is to try run more websites on servers that dont have the required specifications to run that amount. I have always used Apache and with its latest release increasing the speed of apache I don't think I would move any time soon.
     
  17. sng

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    I agree with you, I am using Varnish with Apache and the load time is just as fast as a server with litespeed. We ran a few test, and came to a conclusion that Litespeed is not worth paying an extra $600 per license.
     

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