Comments on: Apache vs LiteSpeed.. Time to switch ??

By: joe

joe — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:25:51 +0000

I’ve just now moved FROM Litespeed (free) TO Apache2 (with APC) and have seen an improvement in performance. Ask your host about caching.

By: Chris Heney

Chris Heney — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:19:16 +0000

I’ve been using LS (LightSpeed) web server for almost 3 months and it is spectacular.

It increased server response time dramatically especially on the logic-heavy sites (running a lot of PHP), and our sites with Content Managment Systems.

As we all know, a CMS with a lot of plugins/modules/extensions, or even just the CMS itself can create 15-80 mysql transactions per page load… That’s per “hit”.

Load time for our average CMS page was approximately 60-70% faster, after testing 50 of our sites pages.

Firefox offers a good extension called Firebug that includes a tab labeled ‘net’. It’s really amazing.

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:18:57 +0000

@Sathya

Hi,

Choto Cheeta Online is running a managed service is the hosting provider (WiredTree.com) doesnt have option for anything else apart from LiteSpeed and Apache

So even if we want, we cant unless we switch our self to a unmanaged service, which would have its own problems

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:16:52 +0000

@Gaurish Sharma Hi, Yes, WP Super Cache is already present in this installation..

By: Sathya

Sathya — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:17:24 +0000

BTW I visited your site couple hours ago, it had the old theme, when did you change the theme ?

By: Sathya

Sathya — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:15:15 +0000

why not give lighthttpd ( http://www.lighttpd.net/ ) a shot? Its FOSS.

By: Gaurish Sharma

Gaurish Sharma — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:40:50 +0000

did you try to enable Caching in WordPress? by Super Cache plugin.

it should greatly reduce load on server as Static HTML pages would be severed instead of dynamic PHP calls.

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:27:46 +0000

@Gaurish Sharma Wen through few more posts of WHT and have found mixed opinion about LiteSpeed..

By: Gaurish Sharma

Gaurish Sharma — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:44:17 +0000

LiteSpeed is lot faster than apache, specially the enterprise version. Given the high traffic you get, I think you should make the switch. it totally worth it.

A unbiased review here:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=616249

Also compare rates of other web hosting companies for lightspeed

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:16:40 +0000

@Gaurish Sharma WiredTree.com is not willing to provide it for free or trial.. I have tried but they wont..