LiteSpeed hosting

LiteSpeed is the most popular as also the fastest responding web server softwares that is available on the internet. It was launched in the year 2002 and has been installed on over a million servers. LiteSpeed hosting can effectively be utilised as a replacement for Apache server in combination with the third party hosting control panel and is also fully compatible with all the apache configurations. LiteSpeed hosting can improve the performance, security as also the reliability of the server.

Features of LiteSpeed Hosting:

• LiteSpeed hosting is very fast, almost 10 times faster than the apache server. Only LiteSpeed hosting can work without any flaws with the control panels written for Apache.
• LiteSpeed is a light weight web server software which requires little cpu and memory usage even those web sites who have heavy traffic.
• It is compatible for most of the web hosting control panels like the DirectAdmin, cpanel, Plesk, ISPConfig, H-Sphere, LxAdmin and many more.
• LiteSpeed hosting is the best option security wise and reduces the potential security leaks as well. It also allows the use of mod_security rules without the need of any modifications to stop the attacks on the known or unknown vulnerabilities.
• 5. LiteSpeed hosting has almost 50% faster PHP performance than the mod_php and a little bit better than the suphp and phpsuexec. It also supports PHP4 and PHP5 without any compromises with Apache.
• It is an efficient engine for rewriting, especially for the rewrite rules configured in .htaccess file. .htaccess support is a necessary feature for the hosting environments. Many of the popular web applications are usually depended on it and it allows the user to change the web server configuration without requiring the access to the main configuration file.
• It comes with an efficient request filtering engine, which helps in achieving higher security with the minimum overhead. LiteSpeed hosting also offers the best PHP security without any compromise on the performance or flexibility.
• LiteSpeed hosting also helps the users to maximize the up time.
• LiteSpeed hosting also supports a graceful restart with as less as zero downtime for the configuration changes and the software updates.
• It also has a software update agent which is in built which facilitates the checking for new updates on a daily basis. It can notify your administrator when new updates are available.
• LiteSpeed hosting is an open source project. So it enjoys a huge community support.
• It facilitates a fast delivery as also better server stability under load which increases the customer satisfaction to a great level.
• LiteSpeed hosting has an absolutely straightforward configuration which helps in keeping the server working even under heavy traffic.
• URL rewrite is extensively used in the web applications. LiteSpeed hosting provides the users great convenience with the URL rewrite support which is compatible with Apache.
• Only LiteSpeed hosting has the options for request filtering which is compatible with Apache mod_security.
• LiteSpeed hosting is the only option that provides the same level of protection like the Apache mod_security along with the ability to use same rules.