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    To start out, we switched to LiteSpeed after having muple server management companies look over a server that was appraching its "capacity" and tell us there was nothing we could do but upgrade the hardware to avoid any more problems. What did we do? Take advantage of the drop in replacement that is fully compatible with Apache (even reading Apache's config files!).

    To sum up our experience with Apache 2.2 Tweaked for performance/resources & LiteSpeed non-tweaked....

    LiteSpeed 4 enabled on the server, hardly any wait time, using 45% of the memory, and a load of two using a 1 core license on a 16 core machine.....

    Apache 2.2 tweaked (non-prefork...etc) RAM 100%, Load 76.0 within minutes and climbing by the minute... Apache finally becomes unstable and refuses to serve any longer... server was dead within 5 minutes of switching LiteSpeed out for Apache...
    We don't need benchmarks to prove LiteSpeed is better. We already know it.

    /End Thread?

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    Quote Originally Posted by IRCCo Jeff View Post
    I've not published a benchmark but my company is paying thousands each month for licensing on software I could be getting for free if it weren't actually performing as advertised.

    End game is that Litespeed is either a) really great or b) i'm really stupid.
    Not for us to judge but we've done benchmarks of our own and it was going to be really stupid of us to switch to Litespeed because (on average) Apache was serving our sites comparatively or faster.

    Litespeed has some advantages but it definitely has its faults. Somehow everyone overlooks the faults and talks about how great it is. It's great until they are sold or go under and then you're all left to try and keep your customers afloat when your licenses stop working.

    They state it VERY clear, "small company". Extremely small with 1 real developer. It's a dangerous tightrope any litespeed customer is walking. HyperVM all over again, imo. If they were a big business and had a real development staff then it wouldn't be such a concern. Although, I've been one of those people to place a ticket and the one guy who knows the answer is "out" for a few days. Scary people would put their business in the hands of a product lacking that much in terms of development.

    Not to say that Litespeed isn't an excellent product. Though, when compared to Apache, it isn't a feat of wonder Lighttpd and nginx easily compare and in terms of flexibility, Apache wins hands down.
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    Based on info from LS forum, it appears that the latest version has some kind of bug which randomly lets people download PHP files instead of executing them:
    http://www.litespeedtech.com/support...?t=3101&page=5

    And there hasn't been any releases after this bug report, not sure how serious is this, but I wouldn't want my php files to be downloaded.

    Btw twitter used Litespeed at some point, but if you check what server they are running now, it says "Hi".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sergej View Post
    Based on info from LS forum, it appears that the latest version has some kind of bug which randomly lets people download PHP files instead of executing them:
    http://www.litespeedtech.com/support...?t=3101&page=5

    And there hasn't been any releases after this bug report, not sure how serious is this, but I wouldn't want my php files to be downloaded.

    Btw twitter used Litespeed at some point, but if you check what server they are running now, it says "Hi".
    This is not true. The said thread is discussing about version 4.1RC1.
    "RC" means "Release Candidate", which is not a stable version and should not be used in a production environment.

    The current latest stable version is 4.0.10.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JLHC View Post
    This is not true. The said thread is discussing about version 4.1RC1.
    "RC" means "Release Candidate", which is not a stable version and should not be used in a production environment.

    The current latest stable version is 4.0.10.
    True, but if you read on someone states they've seen this behaviour on 4.0.10

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    Quote Originally Posted by RandomLittleHost View Post
    True, but if you read on someone states they've seen this behaviour on 4.0.10
    Well I have not tested 4.0.10 fully as I prefer to use the most stable version of 4.0.6. Besides that, 4.0.11 will be released soon to fix this issue.

  7. #57
    Quote Originally Posted by AquariusADMIN View Post
    To start out, we switched to LiteSpeed after having muple server management companies look over a server that was appraching its "capacity" and tell us there was nothing we could do but upgrade the hardware to avoid any more problems. What did we do? Take advantage of the drop in replacement that is fully compatible with Apache (even reading Apache's config files!).

    To sum up our experience with Apache 2.2 Tweaked for performance/resources & LiteSpeed non-tweaked....

    LiteSpeed 4 enabled on the server, hardly any wait time, using 45% of the memory, and a load of two using a 1 core license on a 16 core machine.....

    Apache 2.2 tweaked (non-prefork...etc) RAM 100%, Load 76.0 within minutes and climbing by the minute... Apache finally becomes unstable and refuses to serve any longer... server was dead within 5 minutes of switching LiteSpeed out for Apache...
    We don't need benchmarks to prove LiteSpeed is better. We already know it.

    /End Thread?
    I wonder what do you mean with tweaked?
    There must have being something wrong on your apache config, what you basically say is litespeed performs 38 times better. Thats to good to be truth. I really wish this is truth, because then we are all stupids running apache. 90% of webhosting companies instead of deploying more servers would just implement litespeed.

    Some people share your opinion, and then others say apache 2 with worker if tuned runs with the same performance.

    I wonder then if litespeed can be also tuned, as you said LiteSpeed non-tweaked.

    Is this on a php dynamic environment? So you run it on only 1 core without any issues even when its on a 16 core server?
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  8. #58
    Quote Originally Posted by ServerOrigin View Post
    Not for us to judge but we've done benchmarks of our own and it was going to be really stupid of us to switch to Litespeed because (on average) Apache was serving our sites comparatively or faster.

    Litespeed has some advantages but it definitely has its faults. Somehow everyone overlooks the faults and talks about how great it is. It's great until they are sold or go under and then you're all left to try and keep your customers afloat when your licenses stop working.

    They state it VERY clear, "small company". Extremely small with 1 real developer. It's a dangerous tightrope any litespeed customer is walking. HyperVM all over again, imo. If they were a big business and had a real development staff then it wouldn't be such a concern. Although, I've been one of those people to place a ticket and the one guy who knows the answer is "out" for a few days. Scary people would put their business in the hands of a product lacking that much in terms of development.

    Not to say that Litespeed isn't an excellent product. Though, when compared to Apache, it isn't a feat of wonder Lighttpd and nginx easily compare and in terms of flexibility, Apache wins hands down.
    Everybody starts small some day, that doesn't mean they don't deserve a chance. But I agree, if thats is the case I would not use it for high sensitive services.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PYDOT View Post
    Is this on a php dynamic environment? So you run it on only 1 core without any issues even when its on a 16 core server?
    The number of core licenses is how many processes of lshttpd there will be. So if most of the CPU is dynamic content then one core license is fine. If you have a lot of static content you may need more lshttpd processes available.

    The model it uses is similar to this experimental mpm: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/event.html. Same idea as nginx and lighttpd as well.

    If people say their Apache performs better than litespeed I assume they can make it perform better than nginx and lighttpd as well?
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    Who is Litespeed to tell me that porn "deteriorates human moral values". I wish them nothing other than failure. I hate it when people push there moral feeling on others. Companies like these don't go every far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mohamoud View Post
    Who is Litespeed to tell me that porn "deteriorates human moral values". I wish them nothing other than failure. I hate it when people push there moral feeling on others. Companies like these don't go every far.
    Their assumption that they have the right to determine "morality" is the reason I will never purchase Litespeed, regardless of performance. That said, it doesn't have much to do with performance. You could, however, argue that a full benchmark of Litespeed is impossible, because one is disallowed from benchmarking its performance serving the majority of web traffic.
    [GB ≠ GiB] [MB ≠ MiB] [kB ≠ kiB] [1000 ≠ 1024] [Giga ≠ gram] [Mega ≠ milli] [Kelvin ≠ kilo] [Byte ≠ bit]
    There is no millibit. There is no gram-bit. There is no Kelvin-Byte.

  12. #62
    Quote Originally Posted by Sergej View Post
    Based on info from LS forum, it appears that the latest version has some kind of bug which randomly lets people download PHP files instead of executing them:
    http://www.litespeedtech.com/support...?t=3101&page=5

    And there hasn't been any releases after this bug report, not sure how serious is this, but I wouldn't want my php files to be downloaded.

    Btw twitter used Litespeed at some point, but if you check what server they are running now, it says "Hi".
    IN LSWS switching between versions is matter of seconds, so you can have few versions precompiled and just switch between them without any downtime.
    I'm currently using 4.0.6 version and I can say I'm happy with it, under DDOS my sites stay responsive which I couldn't say about Apache.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bono_ View Post
    under DDOS my sites stay responsive which I couldn't say about Apache.
    Bingo. My staff is skilled in optimizing both Apache and LSWS. We've been able to handle 8000 requests per second on a LSWS server that was crawling when running Apache with < 200 requests.

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    IRCCo Jeff: Less extraordinary claims, and more evidence, please.
    [GB ≠ GiB] [MB ≠ MiB] [kB ≠ kiB] [1000 ≠ 1024] [Giga ≠ gram] [Mega ≠ milli] [Kelvin ≠ kilo] [Byte ≠ bit]
    There is no millibit. There is no gram-bit. There is no Kelvin-Byte.

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    Quote Originally Posted by petteyg359 View Post
    IRCCo Jeff: Less extraordinary claims, and more evidence, please.
    I'm not motivated enough to try to convince you to switch. If you don't want to believe it just carry on with Apache.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IRCCo Jeff View Post
    Bingo. My staff is skilled in optimizing both Apache and LSWS. We've been able to handle 8000 requests per second on a LSWS server that was crawling when running Apache with < 200 requests.
    I have crawled on apache with that many request and I have been able to handle 2 thousand with litespeed before it crawled... Although I was running a low end dedicated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IRCCo Jeff View Post
    I'm not motivated enough to try to convince you to switch. If you don't want to believe it just carry on with Apache.
    Okay, I get it. We're supposed to take it on "faith". No wonder the license disallows porn. It's a religious web server.
    [GB ≠ GiB] [MB ≠ MiB] [kB ≠ kiB] [1000 ≠ 1024] [Giga ≠ gram] [Mega ≠ milli] [Kelvin ≠ kilo] [Byte ≠ bit]
    There is no millibit. There is no gram-bit. There is no Kelvin-Byte.

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    Quote Originally Posted by darkeden View Post
    I have crawled on apache with that many request and I have been able to handle 2 thousand with litespeed before it crawled... Although I was running a low end dedicated.
    2000 is the hard limit if you don't tune it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IRCCo Jeff View Post
    Bingo. My staff is skilled in optimizing both Apache and LSWS. We've been able to handle 8000 requests per second on a LSWS server that was crawling when running Apache with < 200 requests.
    Quote Originally Posted by petteyg359 View Post
    IRCCo Jeff: Less extraordinary claims, and more evidence, please.
    http://www.litespeedtech.com/support...9&postcount=16

    I suggest you read the entire thread.

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    That thread is evidence of nothing. Show me a benchmark.
    [GB ≠ GiB] [MB ≠ MiB] [kB ≠ kiB] [1000 ≠ 1024] [Giga ≠ gram] [Mega ≠ milli] [Kelvin ≠ kilo] [Byte ≠ bit]
    There is no millibit. There is no gram-bit. There is no Kelvin-Byte.

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    I think real world examples are more convincing than benchmarks. Are you saying that those people lied?

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    I an example of somebody thinking that switching to another HTTP server is the answer to a DoS. I don't see any information on what he's actually serving. Plain HTML? PHP with LS SAPI? PHP through FastCGI with PHP-FPM, spawn-fcgi, or daemonize? Ruby through FastCGI? CGI through FastCGI? WSGI? SCGI? Was the DoS still occurring at the exact same level once LS was installed? Were any iptables or firewall stuff changed?

    In other words, useless for actually comparing performance.
    [GB ≠ GiB] [MB ≠ MiB] [kB ≠ kiB] [1000 ≠ 1024] [Giga ≠ gram] [Mega ≠ milli] [Kelvin ≠ kilo] [Byte ≠ bit]
    There is no millibit. There is no gram-bit. There is no Kelvin-Byte.

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    Quote Originally Posted by petteyg359 View Post
    Okay, I get it. We're supposed to take it on "faith". No wonder the license disallows porn. It's a religious web server.
    Please download LSWS trial which lasts for 14 days, tweak apache and try to beat LSWS in performance.
    Post your results and prove that thousands of users who pay for LSWS are actually idiots who cannot optimize Apache.

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    Yeah the trial license is 2 core enterprise version.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bono_ View Post
    Please download LSWS trial which lasts for 14 days, tweak apache and try to beat LSWS in performance.
    Post your results and prove that thousands of users who pay for LSWS are actually idiots who cannot optimize Apache.
    I'm not saying they're idiots by any stretch of the imagination, my only gripe about performance is that LiteSpeed base their benchmarks on the Prefork MPM which only really describes it's effectiveness to the exact group of people you just described. If LSWS works out superior for you, that's awesome - but it's not for everyone.

    Who knows, if we start selling a bunch of webhost packages (web hosting isn't our primary business market at the moment) I might wind up needing to switch. However for our current use, Apache's working reasonably well for us given that most of what it's serving is static content. Comparing Apache/Litespeed to lighttpd/nginx is apples-to-oranges, you're comparing full-featured serving platforms to very nice pieces of software that are unfortunately lacking in some features.

    Find below benchmarks that I messed around with, I do understand they're not definitive by any stretch of the imagination. I made no attempts to tune LiteSpeed at all, but then again our Apache 2.2 is hardly tuned either (more or less just Worker MPM and the other usual suspects). I also fully realize it's quite low bandwidth and low concurrency compared to where LSWS really shines, but this was the best I could manage without having the VPS I was running the benchmarks from run out of steam (numbers got higher on both, without the load going up on the server significantly).

    It shows that for my purposes (obviously not the same as everyone's), LSWS is not the obvious improvement everyone seems to make out it is:

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    Server Software:        Apache/2.2.11
    Server Port:            80
    
    Document Path:          /index.html
    Document Length:        834 bytes
    
    Concurrency Level:      100
    Time taken for tests:   0.859599 seconds
    Complete requests:      800
    Failed requests:        0
    Write errors:           0
    Total transferred:      931563 bytes
    HTML transferred:       668034 bytes
    Requests per second:    930.67 [#/sec] (mean)
    Time per request:       107.450 [ms] (mean)
    Time per request:       1.074 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
    Transfer rate:          1057.47 [Kbytes/sec] received
    
    Connection Times (ms)
                  min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
    Connect:       45   46   0.2     46      47
    Processing:    46   49   5.5     48      70
    Waiting:       46   49   5.3     47      69
    Total:         92   95   5.5     94     116
    
    Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
      50%     94
      66%     94
      75%     95
      80%     95
      90%    103
      95%    112
      98%    114
      99%    115
     100%    116 (longest request)
    
    
    Server Software:        LiteSpeed
    Server Port:            8088
    
    Document Path:          /index.html
    Document Length:        834 bytes
    
    Concurrency Level:      100
    Time taken for tests:   0.844408 seconds
    Complete requests:      800
    Failed requests:        0
    Write errors:           0
    Total transferred:      857600 bytes
    HTML transferred:       667200 bytes
    Requests per second:    947.41 [#/sec] (mean)
    Time per request:       105.551 [ms] (mean)
    Time per request:       1.056 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
    Transfer rate:          991.23 [Kbytes/sec] received
    
    Connection Times (ms)
                  min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
    Connect:       45   46   0.2     46      47
    Processing:    46   47   1.7     47      54
    Waiting:       46   47   1.4     47      54
    Total:         92   93   1.7     94     100
    
    Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
      50%     94
      66%     94
      75%     94
      80%     94
      90%     95
      95%     98
      98%     99
      99%    100
     100%    100 (longest request)
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