Tagged: openlitespeed

Open Litespeed: Tuning Server Settings Part 2

In OpenLiteSpeed Tuning Server Settings Part 1, I outlined some of the most common settings I usually tweak. Well in Part 2 decided to just automate the tuning with a shell script I wrote. The shell script would usually be run in SSH telnet after initial OpenLiteSpeed installation. Feel free...

Open Litespeed: Tuning Server Settings Part 1

OpenLiteSpeed uses an GUI based Admin Console and under Server tab there are sub-tabs for Server, Tuning and External App sections. If you’re like me, you’ll eventually want to tweak and tune OpenLiteSpeed settings for better performance than what is available out of the box. Below, I’ll outline a few...

Open LiteSpeed: Quick install guides for WordPress, Joomla, Magento & Reverse Proxy setup

  LitespeedTech folks have updated open.litespeedtech.com web site with quick how to install guides for installing WordPress, Joomla and Magento along with guides for OpenLiteSpeed install, beginners tutorial and reverse proxy setup. Initial benchmarks of Open LiteSpeed vs Nginx are promising where it seems Open Litespeed retains the same performance...

OpenLiteSpeed: How to recompile PHP (LiteSpeed SAPI PHP)

  OpenLiteSpeed like it’s commercial brother, LiteSpeed has it’s own PHP handler, LiteSpeed SAPI PHP bundled into the web server. But it seems the default OpenLiteSpeed SAPI PHP isn’t optimally compiled. It’s missing MySQL support out of the box and points to a non-existent php.ini path directory at /tmp/lib. Luckily, it’s very...

Open LiteSpeed vs Nginx benchmarks and initial thoughts

  LitespeedTech took me by surprise when they announced an open source free version of Litespeed web server called OpenLiteSpeed. My first thought was, will OpenLiteSpeed retain the LiteSpeed Enterprise version’s performance and scalability in comparison to Nginx web server ? As I’m interested in performance of OpenLiteSpeed particularly in comparison...

Litespeed web server goes open source, OpenLiteSpeed

  LitespeedTech folks have announced an open source free version of their Litespeed Enterprise web server called OpenLiteSpeed. Unfortunately, seems OpenLiteSpeed is missing a few features compared to their Litespeed Enterprise web server, including: hosting control panel compatibility .htaccess file compatibility (seems Apache rewrite syntax is supported just via OpenLiteSpeed Admin...