Siliconhouse.net will soon introduce LITESPEED WEB SERVERS. Lite speed web servers is an alternate web server for Apache web server.
Lets discuss below the advantages and features of litespeed web server
LiteSpeed Web Server is designed to be a direct, high performance replacement for Apache Web Server. LiteSpeed is 100% compatible with all applications & control panels that are designed for Apache. Installing LiteSpeed on your server can show static page serving performance increases of 600%, and LiteSpeed is also 50% faster at serving PHP pages than Apache.
Easily Fits Into Your Existing 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
- Use LiteSpeed to serve as a content accelerator, compression proxy or security guard in front of your current web/Application server, improving performance, scalability and security
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
- Up to 9 times faster than Apache
- PHP performance increases 50%
- Best Ruby on Rail performance
- 3 times faster than Apache in SSL
- Efficient CGI daemon
- High performance Perl daemon
- SSL Hardware acceleration
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
Scalable
- Small memory footprint
- Thousands of concurrent connections
- Increase scalability of external web applications