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LiteSpeed Web Server

LiteSpeed Web Server is the leading high-performance, high-scalability web server. It is completely Apache interchangeable so LiteSpeed Web Server can quickly replace a major bottleneck in your existing web delivery 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 serving architecture.

LiteSpeed Web Server has superior performance in terms of both raw speed and scalability. Our benchmarks demonstrate that it is more than 6 times faster than Apache. When serving static content, LiteSpeed surpasses well-respected content accelerators including thttpd, boa and TUX. When it comes to dynamic content, LiteSpeed is more than 50% faster in PHP content delivery than Apache with mod_php. Don't just take our word for it. Download the LiteSpeed free or trial version and experience it for yourself.

Since its 3.0 release, LiteSpeed Web Server works flawlessly alongside web hosting control panels including cPanel, DirectAdmin, etc. as a drop-in Apache replacement. Easily increase PHP performance and security while doubling server capacity. LiteSpeed is the best choice for shared hosting service providers.

We offer 15-day risk-free trials and a 30-day money back guarantee for the Enterprise Edition. The Standard Edition is free.

Upgrade/Migration

If you are still using Apache or evaluating alternatives, test drive and benchmark LiteSpeed web server in your own hostile environment. You have nothing to lose, a world of difference in performance to gain plus a leap in ease-of-use and the safety of enterprise level support. To ease migration, LiteSpeed can operate directly from an Apache configuration file or you can use our Apache-to-LiteSpeed configuration converter.

Overview:

FEATURE RICH
  • CGI, FastCGI, LSAPI, PHP, Servlet/JSP, Proxy
  • SSL, IPv4, IPv6
  • Best Ruby on Rail support
  • Apache compatible .htaccess support
  • mod_security compatible request filtering
  • Apache compatible URL rewrite engine
  • MS FrontPage Server Extension
FAST
USER FRIENDLY
  • Easy installation
  • Automatic PHP Setup
  • Easy server management through WebAdmin GUI
  • Apply changes on the fly
  • Real-time service monitoring
  • Automatic update agent
  • Virtual host template configuration
SECURE
  • Strictest HTTP request validation
  • Deny any buffer-overrun attempts
  • Anti-DDoS: Throttling & Connection Accounting
  • System overloading prevention
  • Chroot web server process
  • CGI/FCGI/LSAPI/PHP/RUBY suEXEC
  • Virtual host chroot
RELIABLE
  • Watch Dog monitoring
  • Recover from service failure instantly
  • Zero down time graceful restart
SCALABLE
  • Small memory footprint
  • Thousands of concurrent connections
  • Increase scalability of external web applications
EASILY FIT INTO YOUR EXISTING WEB INFRASTRUCTURE
  • Apache interchangeable, operate directly from Apache httpd.conf
  • Web hosting control panel compatible: cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, etc
  • Migration from other web servers is quick and easy
  • No need to purchase extra hardware to cope with your current web server's lack of performance
  • Or have LiteSpeed serve as a content accelerator, compression proxy or security guard in front of your current web/Application server, improving performance, scalability and security.
 

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