Although litespeed webserver is the said to be 50% more faster than traditional apache webserver but do you know that if you compile your php using workers mpm along with a lil bit tweaking here and there you can achieve a much faster performace than what Litespeed can offer? Recently I have been running a test on 2 vps with cPanel (trial license thanks to cPanel) & Litespeed webserver (trial license too ^^). The setup is has been configured almost match to each other except one using litespeed and the other using prefork then rebuild using workers mpm. Memory usage: It's appear that both running at almost the same 170mb ram on idle so I do a web proxy test using non-cgi proxy which will be use to proxify 1GB file download hosted on the other vps so now I open a few download task up to 10k simultanous download. Please correct me if I do the test wrongly but this is just one of my crazy idea. Apache + Workers MPM server appear to use less memory usage compared with Litespeed. The difference its not really much but it should be enough to simulate a medium busy server. Benchmark is using ab -n10000 -c50 <proxify url to the file> Well what drive me to do this test is when I read: while more offshore hosting is using litespeed as apache replacement and this make me curios what is the best about litespeed anyway.
I see Litespeed website now is kinda messed up and the link is not even working anymore. I wonder if they got beat by apache that badly and start to do down.