Litespeed server

July 22nd, 2009, 6:31 am

Do you know anything of Litespeed server?
Is it fast enough for running e-commerce web sites ?

[spork]

July 22nd, 2009, 8:14 am

How much traffic does your e-commerce website get? They claim to be faster than Apache according to their benchmarks.

[joebert]

July 22nd, 2009, 3:14 pm

I don't think the tests in their benchmarks are very realistic.

Quote:

A small static file with 100 bytes in size is used in this test. The reasons of using a small file are: to avoid network bandwidth bottleneck, to reveal the performance of web server software instead of kernel.

They're obviously just trying to make sure they look good.

It's not like you're going to use just the server by itself without a network or kernel, what if the alternatives work around these "bottlenecks" more efficiently thus increasing performance in a real environment ?

July 29th, 2009, 6:34 am

No Litespeed is better than Apache and is perfectly interchangeable. Litespeed just costs money while Apache is free. By extension web hosts with Litespeed simply tend to charge more. You can see the difference when your website is large and uses alot of resources.

[joebert]

July 29th, 2009, 7:09 am

Virtuous_Host wrote:

No Litespeed is better than Apache and is perfectly interchangeable. Litespeed just costs money while Apache is free. By extension web hosts with Litespeed simply tend to charge more. You can see the difference when your website is large and uses alot of resources.

Where are those benchmarks, all I see are the ones where they test everything in a sterile environment.

I don't mean to knock them, but it's foolish to take "I'm better than them" claims seriously without real data.

July 30th, 2009, 12:24 am

Nearly 70% of world websites using Apache. Source: http://greatstatistics.com/

So I would also go with Apache

October 10th, 2009, 4:34 am

Enterprise version of Litespeed rocks at the top but it ain't cheap.

A better and free alternative would be lighttpd, also blazing fast.

Apache is a lot common but you need very good tuning to get it close to the speed of the above counterparts.

November 4th, 2009, 10:52 pm

Lite speed web servers offers good performance and scalability. It is feature rich, user friendly , fast and secure. It offers easy installation and automatic PHP set up. It is compatible with Web hosting control panel such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, etc.