Comments on: Should We Switch To LiteSpeed?

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:25:36 +0000

Apache 2.2 with FastCGI is a solid setup when you’re running a few sites or just one site. It’s easy to implement a suexec and give the proper number of children processes so that you don’t use to much memory but just enough. This in an environment with hundreds of accounts it be more difficult to find that right number and also maintain the suexec environment.

As for the comment about support we’ve had no issue receiving support from them. We have not been charged a penny for asking questions. I imagine it’s more for people who call and want support through that means.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:14:35 +0000

Litespeed is a piece of garbage! A properly optimized configuration of Apache 2.2 with FastCGI would work much better.

Why would you waste money on such a piece of junk, especially since they charge you to provide support and do not include it with their owned or leased licenses. A bunch of greedy people running that business, and hopefully people will start realizing it soon enough that not only are their benchmarks outdated but their piece of garbage software is worthless.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:16:51 +0000

We’re hoping to do the first machine on the 29th then a few days another until we have all our higher end machines running it. From there we’ll then decide how to approach our older machines which are ready for an upgrade.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:07:05 +0000

I think you should go and move over to this software as if will work like normal and it faster.
if you do go to do this is there any plan date?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:52:22 +0000

Our site is served via LiteSpeed as of this moment and we’re running Zend Framework and Wordpress. Both make heavy use of mod_rewrite which just works fine.

Litespeed is suppose to be almost 100% compatible with the mod_rewrite system of apache and also faster than apache’s. We have yet to run into a script or rule set that does not work with litespeed.

By: Bryan P.

Bryan P. — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:22:35 +0000

I have been developing several sites and plan to work on more. using the CakePHP framework and it uses the mod_rewrite system to run urls. So, a change which affects it could be bad for my sites. And require re-coding or modifications.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:18:12 +0000

I’ve heard of it but have not used it. Also it would not integrate like litespeed will. Litespeed can read apache httpd.conf files which means cPanel doesn’t even need to be aware of us running something other than apache. Plus I believe LiteSpeed is faster than lighttpd

By: chris

chris — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:37:26 +0000

i think this would be a good move but have you looked at http://www.lighttpd.net/