LiteSpeed Web Server
Sep 2, 2007Ive been planning to try LiteSpeed Web Server on my cPanel webhosting servers, but cant decide which license is best for my 2 x quadcore Xeon E5335 system and 2 x dualcore Xeon 5130 system.
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Litespeed Server Performance
Sep 29, 2009I was just playing around with litespeed and I thought I would switch back to apache for a few min to see how the server reacts. The load with litespeed was 1.00 - 3.00. I switched to apache the load jumped to 28.00 - 35.00. Its amazing how litespeed is handling connections.
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Jun 28, 2007SO the last few months I been trying like crazy to tweak Apache or find a better http setup such as running lighttpd with Apache, etc. I have been frustrated by the way Apache easily fork bombs under any decent load or dos attack. You get about 100 bots all making 30+ connections a piece on Apache and it kills it.
Bot kids have adapted to ddos protection and connection flooding banning by sending low bandwidth attacks that do not make enough connections to get banned if you do have protection, its real low bandwidth incoming but is like a massive vampire attack outgoing. And it destroys Apache no matter what you do, what modules you have, etc. You basically have to go in and manually ban or set your connection tracking limit down to where it starts banning regular users too.
So I seen on here somewhere someone recommending litespeed to someone so I went and checked it out and was amazed by the performance. I installed the trial enterprise in a p4 server I been having problems out of lately crashing all because a busy site and I installed it in my main server.
The only thing I needed to do was compile my own php5 for it, which is real easy via their wiki instruction. After a few snags here in there I finally got it working tip top on both servers, both of which are cpanel.
So with the p4 that was always crashing and keeping hi load, We would end up having to remote reboot that box almost once a week not due to any misconfiguration or wrong setup, just couldnt take all that Apache usage and would die. We instantly noticed a difference with litespeed. The average load used to be about 1-2 always, with litespeed the average stayed about ..2 even under heavy traffic. So this was a big improvement and we have not had to reboot that box since.
My main server which I take my high risk clients on, core2duo 2.4. I thought there for a Lil bit the sites were starting to outgrow the server as its average load always was around 1 which was fairly acceptable seeing the traffic it gets so normal for Apache.
During the low bandwidth ddos attacks I would have to go in and manually ban as well as setting connection limit way down just to keep it from lagging, most of the time it still did. So I was really wanting to do something for this server to optimize http without upgrading, because it seems most of your hardware upgrades are to suit Apache anyway.
So I installed litespeed on my main server, ran into a few snags here and there but eventually got it under control. Just the last few days I got to see it put to the test.
I took on a client who was being extorted by a ddoser who recently got him kicked off his previous host. SO as soon as dns resolves here comes the crapstorm. A low bandwidth http attack, a lot got by ddos firewall on the network level which these are hard to stop because they are so similar to a legit user.
So I started getting hundreds of csf connection tracking blocked emails, was checking the site periodically and it loaded fine. So I logged in the box, looked at the load.
Was at .24. When I done netstat command there was hundreds of syns coming in and about 250 ips all connected about 50 times, this would normally kill Apache no matter what CPU/ram and all that you have. So I set connection tracking down to a reasonable level, 60 connections and I figured I would just let them get themselves banned. Looking in the live stats in the litespeed admin panel which is real cool BTW. I was seeing about 400 requests a second. This was eating a Lil bandwidth, all outgoing as that is how the attack works like a massive vamp attack. So about 2000 connection tracking emails later finally gets em all banned. The entire time the load on that box never even got to 1!
So im pretty much amazed how fast and light this http server is. And especially how well it handles dos. I about know for a fact even if you was on a non protected network it could handle as much http as your pipe will give it, and do all this at a low resource load.
This will end up saving me money on hardware upgrades in the future as well. Long review, long story, but I been so amazed by this http server I had to make a review on it. Im sure some geniouses will try to say "If you do this and that with apache you can make it just as good" But check it out for yourselves and see.
Litespeed
Mar 31, 2009In a 2 X Quad Xeon server with 16GB RAM and 2 X 500GB on DirectAdmin.
IOwait is less than 10% most of the times.
So litespeed told me to go with a 2 CPU core license.
1. So since i going with 2 CPU core license. It will only make 2 cores user litespeed for PHP out of 8 cores? what other cores gonna do? only static content? Or other cores gonna use Apache for php? can you plz explain.
2. Do we have to configure cache like mod_cache, mod_disk_cache, and mod_mem_cache etc with litespeed too? Or it has its own methods of caching?
3. Should use their PHP LiteSpeed SAPI over normal PHP?
Is there any compatibility problems with scripts like Vbulletin, jamroom?
LiteSpeed Vs Apache
Jul 17, 2009Anyone happen to know the difference between the two and whether or not I'll notice the difference between them?
For example, many, many, many, many moons ago, in a far away land, there used to be a difference between Windows and Linux for perl scripts. In fact, if you couldn't re-write half the script, some of them just didn't work right on a windows host.
Are there any differences like that between lightspeed and apache, or is it all pretty much the same and doesn't really matter?
LiteSpeed SSL Ioncube
Apr 16, 2009I'm now running litespeed server to power sites on a VPS. Currently, a site is working without https access normally. However, when you access the site via HTTPS (SSL), I recieve ioncube is not loaded. Comparing the phpinfo, it appears that the https is loading the old configuration of phpinfo, what's worse, is that it's loading PHP 4. Both however, load the same PHP configuration file.
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Jun 15, 2009when I type "top" into ssh I see 3 proccesses of lshttpd, 2 are running by nobody, 1 by root., lsws is installed as nobody:nobody. Also, I see 2 lsphp5 processes, by nobody both. I have 4 virtual hosts configured. Are those proccesses normal, I think there should be only 1 proccess lshttpd and lsphp5.
Can you check if you are running litespeed how many proccesses of lshttpd you have?
My litespeed is not using httpd.conf
Litespeed Hosting
Oct 25, 2009I have a site hosted at steadfast.net - I like it very much especially the speed is Great and the prices are Good. However i am having a lot of connection errors and MySQL Problems.
Is there any other shared hosting that uses Litespeed ? with Good Prices and Good Reviews ?
Is Litespeed For VPS Good
Jan 9, 2009i am interested to install Litespeed on my vps (with cpanel)
it is good?
LiteSpeed -> Apache
Jul 12, 2009I no longer have the funds for a LSWS lic, so I need to move to Apache. I run CPanel and need help in configuring Apache to be able to take 120 requests/sec and no crap out.
I've never worked with Apache since been using LiteSpeed for over 2 years, so I need some advice on how to set it up, compile, configure, ect...
Apache Vs Litespeed
Oct 8, 2009I started a thread last night to get some opinions as I am trying to find a new host & now am coming up with another question... Apache vs Litespeed. A cpanel is important to me, which I am not sure is possible with Litespeed & a highly rated company that offers LS, Medialayer, doesn't offer phone support which is mandatory to me. Can't find many companies that offer Litespeed & everything else that I need.
So as not to repeat, please see the tread I started last night to get the gist of my needs. I also another opinion over there on Liquidweb. See:
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Know Of Any Security For Litespeed
Apr 4, 2009I have litespeed enterprise.
Will mod Security work with it? I doubt it, because it says Apache. But just wondering.
Dos anyone know of anything else, besides the security section on litespeed?
Any packages like mod security, that work with Ubuntu and LiteSpeed?
LiteSpeed Webserver
Mar 27, 2009Due to heavy load, our web server get crashed. We have plan to use LiteSpeed web server, is anybody used these server. I like to know performance of these.
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Feb 27, 2009I tried searching for it on google but couldn't find any server company offering VPS using Litespeed instead of Apache. Yes, I know that Apache could be optimized, but would like to try a VPS or dedicated server with Litespeed, just for testing and learning to use and troubleshoot Litespeed. Does anybody here know of a supplier? I would need less than 10 gigs, 250+ Ram as well as cPanel.
View 13 Replies View RelatedLitespeed Suexec
Jun 17, 2009I installed lsws without apache conf file(httpd.conf). Then I created a new virtual host in "suEXEC" Template. I added a new user via SSH and made home dir for him and chowned his home dir + all his files to hisusername:hisusername. His home dir(/home/user/) is chmoded to 755 and his /public_html to 711. It worked fine but after that I installed phpbb3 forum and when I tried to chmod config.php to 600 I got an error on the forum:
Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required './config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/username/public_html/common.php on line 127
When I was using lsws with apache conf file and I had configured suEXEC + suPHP for apache I was able to chmod config file to 600 and it worked fine. I have no idea what could be the problem now.
It works fine when I chmod config.php to 755 but for security reasons I would need a way to configure it to 600.
LiteSpeed si running as nobody:nobody.
EX. APP settings:
LSAPI App
$VH_NAME_lsphp
uds://tmp/lshttpd/$VH_NAME_lsphp.sock
SCRIPT HANDLER settings:
Suffix: php5
Type: LiteSpeed API
Name: [VHost Level]: $VH_NAME_lsphp
Litespeed Standard
Sep 11, 2008I got new server for free image hosting services, I was reading up about lite speed and it seems faster for this type of need however i do not have money to buy enterprise edition now, standard edition which is free but it says only 150 concurrent connection, means i can't have more than 150 ppl viewing a image? please advice or do stick with our great Apache which free
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May 18, 2008We run a quite intensive web and found some performance tests about LiteSpeed Ent. Our site is Apache + PHP driven. Is it worth to pay for LiteSpeed Ent ? Is the performance increase really significant?
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Jan 24, 2008I've tried turning on/off gzipping, other stuff.
It's an AJAX tab script.
Exact same thing, exact same paths work on my shared hosting elsewhere, but not on my box running LS.
LiteSpeed Users
Sep 12, 2008Does LiteSpeed webserver provides me bandwidth usage?
Someone told me that he was using 8 mbits connection and after jumping to LiteSpeed, bandwidth usage has decreased to 3 mbits.
Litespeed And Mails
Dec 22, 2008I installed litespeed but now I can't send mails, I didn't got any error but mails are not delivered. My ip is not listed at spamhaus or something like that. Before, with apache it worked fine
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Apr 4, 2008Having constant and random downtime with Lighttpd being that for no reason connections get refused and my server load is low, that I think maybe get Litespeed.
I believe my server is an Intel Core2Quad Q6600
I think its only got 1 CPU in it.
What license do I need?
Free Litespeed
Dec 15, 2008Anyone using free version of litespeed?
View 3 Replies View RelatedApache & Litespeed
Dec 25, 2007if there is any difference between apache & litespeed? Performance wise I know litespeed would be better. But in terms of configuration wise, compatitibility wise and some other factors, how different would it be for apache & litespeed?
My concern is if I were to change from apache to litespeed, would my webhosting customers know how to use it in 1 way or another? like permissions and stuff.
Config And Run LiteSpeed Webserver
Dec 6, 2008i would like to use Litespeed webserver from my server.i installed and run Litespeed from my server. but i dont know how to config. when i start the Litespeed webserver i have an error to please install Zend. Please help me to install zend and if you know whats my need for install please help me to done.
I use cPanel - Dedicated Server
i can control the Litespeed from the cPanel WHM.
Litespeed And Bash Script
Jun 4, 2009I'm having a problem with litespeed and apache, every time when I reboot the server listespeed and apache(both) are started and the server uses apache. I configured litespeed to use a conf file of apache so I can't remove just apache. I need a way when I restart the server litespeed is started and apache is stoped
2nd problem. how to make this in a batch script
The script will backup a directory every month and I need in every backup get a date like this directoryname-date(day/month/year)
How To Install Mod_Security On LiteSpeed
Jul 6, 2009i'm using DirectAdmin ,
when i was using Apache , i installed & Compiled Mod_Sec 2 , now i installed LiteSpeed & i want compile mod_sec with LiteSpeed ,
LiteSpeed Directory Indexing
May 13, 2009I've been testing out LiteSpeed on a few of my servers, extremely pleased with it! Only issue I have left are directory indexes. A good chunk of my users store files and rely on Apache directory indexing to serve up the content. With LiteSpeed, the default behavior for a folder with no default document is to display nothing at all. I've looked through the documentation and found that LiteSpeed does have the functionality, but I'm having some issue getting it to actually work.
Can someone tell me exactly where the index files for LiteSpeed are placed, what to configure, etc?
Apache Or Litspeed Or LiteSpeed
Apr 16, 2009i want to manage my server. which of this do you prefer to use and why?
Apache
LiteSpeed
lighthttpd
?
on cpanel/cent OS
LiteSpeed Advantages Vs. Apache
Jan 24, 2009I know most webhosts run Apache and it seems to server their needs very well. However LiteSpeed is new and fast, assuming you have relatively static content. At least that's what I've heard. Beyond this, I don't know much, though a year ago I worked with a guy who hosted an iPhone software repository (smallish files, huge demand), and he put LiteSpeed on the servers to deal with the load. Running at 30+ Mbps, with spikes above 60, the server never went above 0.2 load as far as I remember, and it was just a 2GB Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86 GHz machine.
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Dec 16, 2008litespeed - Invalid Credentials
I always got a Invalid Credentials error when I tried to login to admin panel
Is there any way to I can fix it or how can I change litespeed username/password via ssh
Knowledgable Litespeed User
Feb 24, 2008I have a few questions for people using the free version of litespeed.Do you notice improvement from apache?
Is it possible to convert my existing apache server to use litespeed with minimal downtime?
If so how much would it cost^
Will the load decrease on my server?
I run a VDS with 512mb ram and 1024 burst? Will that be fine?
Also I would like to talk to someone on AIM MSN
AIM: dylanxmowsxfaces
MSN: dylan@kraklak.com