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.
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.
Features
- 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
License Options: Owned vs Leased
- Leased: License is valid only for the duration of lease period. Includes free updates within lease period.
- Owned: One time permanent license. First year of software updates is included.
Owned License is entitled to free product updates for 1 year. Software updates after 1 year is: $99/year base and $50 additional per CPU-Core.


