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    Why don't all shared web hosts use litepspeed?

    Why don't all shared web hosts use litepspeed? Any reason?

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    I'm sure that this has something to do with it

    https://store.litespeedtech.com/store/cart.php
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    Seriously, what's your budget?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RossMAN View Post
    I'm sure that this has something to do with it

    https://store.litespeedtech.com/store/cart.php
    Isn't that almost nothing for web hosting companies?

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    It's all preference. Most of us prefer to choose to stay out of another HyperVM situation with closed-source. Additionally, Apache 2.2 (if configured correctly) is just as good or better than Apache.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DakNet View Post
    Isn't that almost nothing for web hosting companies?
    For small companies, the extra licensing costs may not seem worth it. For bigger companies, shifting away from Apache would be quite a big change even though LiteSpeed is a drop-in replacement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DakNet View Post
    Why don't all shared web hosts use litepspeed? Any reason?

    I guess for the same reason they use Joomla for their website rather then a commercial product? "because open source matters"?

    In all seriousness though - Apache v2.x is awesome and be configured pretty much however you like. Apache is rarely the limiting factor in shared hosting, so, changing to litespeed doesnt make much sense.. as Orien also pointed out, a large fleet is all about standardization. You cannot just plop a new webserver onto 100s of servers - it would cause all sorts of issues. Is litespeed better? in some aspects yes - it is, in others, no it isnt... I do not see a reason for litespeed to be a defacto standard.. though, I do see a niche market for it, thats for sure..
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    Quote Originally Posted by DakNet View Post
    Isn't that almost nothing for web hosting companies?
    It depends on the company.

    Quote Originally Posted by ServerOrigin View Post
    It's all preference. Most of us prefer to choose to stay out of another HyperVM situation with closed-source. Additionally, Apache 2.2 (if configured correctly) is just as good or better than Apache.
    Apache 2.2 can perform just as well as LiteSpeed but in my experiences it requires 2x the ram to do so (we've run Apache for years and LiteSpeed for long enough to identify the difference).

    I wrote a small post about it on my personal non-commercial blog: http://www.mikedvb.com/2009/07/22/li...-2-in-my-eyes/
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    Quote Originally Posted by ServerOrigin View Post
    It's all preference. Most of us prefer to choose to stay out of another HyperVM situation with closed-source. Additionally, Apache 2.2 (if configured correctly) is just as good or better than Apache.
    Just a correction... I meant "Apache 2.2 (if configured correctly) is just as good or better than Litespeed."

    Our real world benchmarks prove Apache 2.2 is on par and in cases faster than Litespeed. Not to mention the flexibility we have with Apache and the limitless modules available. It's a safer bet for shared providers. Support is always here, whereas, Litespeed goes out of business and now all of your customers are completely unsupported. You can't fix bugs, you can't see the code, and you can't recognize the vulnerabilities. The risks far outweigh the benefits.

    May never happen but in this business there is always that possibility.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ServerOrigin View Post
    Just a correction... I meant "Apache 2.2 (if configured correctly) is just as good or better than Litespeed."

    Our real world benchmarks prove Apache 2.2 is on par and in cases faster than Litespeed. Not to mention the flexibility we have with Apache and the limitless modules available. It's a safer bet for shared providers. Support is always here, whereas, Litespeed goes out of business and now all of your customers are completely unsupported. You can't fix bugs, you can't see the code, and you can't recognize the vulnerabilities. The risks far outweigh the benefits.

    May never happen but in this business there is always that possibility.
    In my opinion Apache 2.2 is the best web server. It is stable and doesn't use much resources and seems to respond faster than IIS

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    I suppose the main reason is demand. If there is demand for the services I'm sure that will be offered by every second host...

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    As Apache is easy to use and there are heaps of information out for it, and its widely used and so bugs are quicker to found and solved quicker. As most of the webhosts install Cpanel, Plesk and directadmin which mostly rely on the Apache.
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    There are hundreds of webservers available. Why would we use LiteSpeed?
    The fact that probably every sysadmin has worked with Apache gives it a big advantage.

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    Apache is a proven web server. I haven't seen any cases where using anything else really makes that much of a difference. We've had customers pushing 500+ small files per second on Apache with a low load, so why switch?
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    the cost has to be absorbed somewhere, clients sure dont want to pay for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cartika-andrew View Post
    I guess for the same reason they use Joomla for their website rather then a commercial product? "because open source matters"?

    In all seriousness though - Apache v2.x is awesome and be configured pretty much however you like. Apache is rarely the limiting factor in shared hosting, so, changing to litespeed doesnt make much sense.. as Orien also pointed out, a large fleet is all about standardization. You cannot just plop a new webserver onto 100s of servers - it would cause all sorts of issues. Is litespeed better? in some aspects yes - it is, in others, no it isnt... I do not see a reason for litespeed to be a defacto standard.. though, I do see a niche market for it, thats for sure..
    I have to agree with everything said here. However we have upgraded our server to apache 2.x and it is nice yet it create a world of headaches for my self and my techs. Working well into the night to fix many messed up sites, but I guess thats what you have to expect when upgrading to a major version improvement.

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    Any host running Apache is going to fight for Apache where as any host running LiteSpeed is going to fight for LiteSpeed - that's like asking Host A if you should sign up with Host B and vice versa... The host wouldn't be running it if they didn't believe it could perform and do what they want it to do

    In the end, this probably isn't the best place to ask this kind of question for an unbiased and objective response
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    Considering Apache is a Open source web server it has the worlds support behind it. When 1 bugs pops up and another person solves it. Then apache patches it and its all done. With Paid webservers you get a bug and their developers have to solve it and patch it.

    Plus apache makes it cheaper for their clients

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcarney1987 View Post
    Considering Apache is a Open source web server it has the worlds support behind it. When 1 bugs pops up and another person solves it. Then apache patches it and its all done. With Paid webservers you get a bug and their developers have to solve it and patch it.
    Which in my experiences with LiteSpeed usually only takes a few minutes to an hour or two from the time that you report a bug until it's resolved and pushed into the latest build - I don't know that I've seen an update pushed out that fast with Apache so your argument doesn't make a whole lot of sense

    Of course I am seeing things from the "other side of the fence" but I speak having run Apache 1.3, 2.0. and 2.2 for years prior to running LiteSpeed so I do have knowledge of both systems
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeDVB View Post
    Which in my experiences with LiteSpeed usually only takes a few minutes to an hour or two from the time that you report a bug until it's resolved and pushed into the latest build - I don't know that I've seen an update pushed out that fast with Apache so your argument doesn't make a whole lot of sense

    Of course I am seeing things from the "other side of the fence" but I speak having run Apache 1.3, 2.0. and 2.2 for years prior to running LiteSpeed so I do have knowledge of both systems

    Well I am not saying lightspeed is slow. If they have fast service then perhaps they get to work and get the patch out. But I've never used lightspeed. I personally just hate trying to get support from paid services just because they can make you wait forever. But opensource you can ask the world for support and it is more easily answered. But as I said before I have never used lightspeed and probably never will. So who knows the true capability.

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    In the end, this probably isn't the best place to ask this kind of question for an unbiased and objective response
    Probably not the perfect place indeed, but do you know some that would be? I can't imagine any. Threads like this raise awareness, and that's definitely something gained.

    However we have upgraded our server to apache 2.x and it is nice yet it create a world of headaches for my self and my techs. Working well into the night to fix many messed up sites, but I guess thats what you have to expect when upgrading to a major version improvement.
    You're touching a serious issue there. Apache has a huge market share, yet hosts still took their time to upgrade to Apache 2. We can only imagine the significantly higher natural resistance to change to something like Litespeed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcarney1987 View Post
    Well I am not saying lightspeed is slow. If they have fast service then perhaps they get to work and get the patch out. But I've never used lightspeed. I personally just hate trying to get support from paid services just because they can make you wait forever. But opensource you can ask the world for support and it is more easily answered. But as I said before I have never used lightspeed and probably never will.
    It certainly has it's place - as an example a server at another provider that I do some work for was running 200~300 loads (around 550 proxy accounts on the server) with Apache and FastCGI and as soon as it was switched to LiteSpeed the load dropped to 2~3 steady - RAM usage was cut in half and performance was greatly increased. I am very good at optimizing Apache and I have worked with it for years however the Proxy environment and the demands it put on Apache were too much for Apache to handle even heavily optimized on a *very strong* dual quad core node with HT raid10 and 24gb of ram A switch to LiteSpeed turned that all around and I could post up a video showing the huge differences but I'd rather Apache hosts stay on Apache which gives us LiteSpeed hosts more of an "Edge" and a smaller/tighter market

    Edit: That server with 550 accounts was consolidated down from 4 such similar servers to save costs and then was switched to LiteSpeed to allow the 1 server to handle the work that previously required 4 servers... For the price of around $32/month the provider cut out over $1500 worth of additional leased servers I did try to optimize Apache before switching to LSWS however the requests/second and the amount of connections was simply too high for Apache to handle reliably

    Quote Originally Posted by jcarney1987 View Post
    So who knows the true capability.
    I do, I've been running LiteSpeed for some time and as stated in my response to the first section of your post I quoted, I've seen it work wonders. It's not a miracle piece of software that will solve every problem and I won't say that it does everything better than Apache but I have used their support enough to know that when a bug or issue is reported it's fixed quickly and that it can and does handle as much as Apache 2.2 (heavily optimized) or more using 1/2 as much ram or less.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ServerOrigin View Post
    Support is always here, whereas, Litespeed goes out of business and now all of your customers are completely unsupported.
    In which case:

    1) Login to Cpanel
    2) Click on the Litespeed module
    3) Click "Switch to Apache"

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    Quote Originally Posted by IRCCo Jeff View Post
    In which case:

    1) Login to Cpanel
    2) Click on the Litespeed module
    3) Click "Switch to Apache"
    Unless you run FreeBSD where that module breaks everything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ServerOrigin View Post
    Unless you run FreeBSD where that module breaks everything.
    I've never seen anybody show me how/why the "WHM Plugin" for LSWS breaks FreeBSD... It's a plugin for WHM that simply gives you access to a small LSWS control panel - how on earth would that "Break everything"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeDVB View Post
    I've never seen anybody show me how/why the "WHM Plugin" for LSWS breaks FreeBSD... It's a plugin for WHM that simply gives you access to a small LSWS control panel - how on earth would that "Break everything"?
    No idea. Only know the last time we used it, we had permission issues, broken configurations, messed up the conf files, and required several hours of repair. It's not the add-on, it's the add-on's installation method.
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