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Category: LiteSpeed Web Server

Learn more about LiteSpeed Web Server. LSWS conserves resources without sacrificing performance, security, compatibility, or convenience. When you replace Apache with LiteSpeed, you double your maximum capacity, and eliminate the need for a 3rd party caching layer – all in 15 minutes with zero downtime!

  • The HTTPoxy Vulnerability has been taken care of by LiteSpeed, automatically!

    The HTTPoxy Vulnerability has been taken care of by LiteSpeed, automatically!

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    Today, HTTPoxy was discovered in the wild. This vulnerability affects some server-side web applications that run in CGI or CGI-like environments, such as some FastCGI configurations. So far, the PHP, Python, and Go languages are known to be affected by this.

    The vulnerability is caused by conflicting namespaces. A CGI or FastCGI-like interface sets environment variables based on HTTP request parameters. These can override internal variables that are used to configure the application. Further explanation of this bug can be found on the httpoxy web page.

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  • Imagine Conference: Magento@LiteSpeed!

    Imagine Conference: Magento@LiteSpeed!

    Magento Imagine 2016

    Last month we posted about our experiences at WHD.Global. Two weeks and thousands of miles later, we attended the Magento Imagine conference in Las Vegas. We’d like to again share our thoughts.
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  • Announcing Our New LiteMage Package Pricing!

    Announcing Our New LiteMage Package Pricing!

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    With the recent end of the LiteMage‘s promotional period, a new pricing plan was put in place. Today, I’m pleased to announce the new pricing scheme of our LiteMage Packages.

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  • LSMCD: A Persistent, Highly Scalable and Available Memcached Replacement

    LSMCD: A Persistent, Highly Scalable and Available Memcached Replacement

    LSMCD

    Think database web applications have to be slow? Think again! With our completely free and open source LiteSpeed Memcached, you can accelerate your site by alleviating database load dynamically!

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  • Of Benchmarks and Bug Fixes: OpenLiteSpeed Gets Even Faster!

    Of Benchmarks and Bug Fixes: OpenLiteSpeed Gets Even Faster!

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    A few weeks back, Jarrod from rootusers.com posted a benchmark that demonstrated that when handling small static files, Nginx outperformed our OpenLiteSpeed Web Server, particularly during the 1 and 2 CPU Core tests. We decided to dig deeper and investigate these results.

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  • LiteSpeed vs Apache vs Nginx, Who Does Magento Hosting Better?

    LiteSpeed vs Apache vs Nginx, Who Does Magento Hosting Better?

    LiteMage March 2016 Benchmark Banner

    Before last years Magento Imagine conference, we announced a benchmark where we stated that LiteMage performed ~17-40x better than Turpentine + Varnish. This led to several people questioning the validity of our benchmark because LiteMage seemed too good to be true. A year later, we decided to revisit this benchmark with the latest version of each software to see where we stand.

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  • LiteSpeed Cache For WordPress Is Now Available In WordPress’s Plugin Directory!

    LiteSpeed Cache For WordPress Is Now Available In WordPress’s Plugin Directory!

    LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress

    We are very excited to announce that our first official release of the LiteSpeed Cache Plugin for WordPress has arrived on WordPress’s own plugin directory!

    Released last week, LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) uses the LSCache plugin for WordPress to communicate with LiteSpeed Web Server and LSCache to statically cache your dynamic WordPress pages, greatly reducing page load time and server load. As development continues, we will be adding many more features – such as ESI support similar to what can be seen in LiteMage Cache for Magento.

    LSCWP Installation Guide

    Supercharge your WordPress with LSCWP today!

  • Real Problem, Real Solution, Really Fast

    Real Problem, Real Solution, Really Fast

    LiteSpeed Fast

    From feature request to solution delivery in less than an hour.

    Recently, there have been a number of large-scale brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. These attacks try to bypass WordPress security by attempting to log in with every possible combination of username and password, sometimes sending thousands of requests per second.

    Since these attacks began, one of our clients had all 50 of his hosted WordPress sites simultaneously attacked. He was able to mitigate these attacks using LiteSpeed’s mod_security rules, but wanted a way to easily and automatically block these IPs at the server level.

    We responded within an hour – modifying our code and publishing a new build that allowed the client to add offending IP addresses to the blocked IP list using mod_security rules. These IPs can then be easily grabbed from the blocked IP list and added to the server level firewall using a script – stopping the connection at the network level before it ever reaches LiteSpeed Web Server.

    That’s the kind of speed you can expect from LiteSpeed!

  • Happy Holidays – LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (Beta) is Here!

    Happy Holidays – LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (Beta) is Here!

    LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress

    We are excited to announce the beta release of the much anticipated LiteSpeed Cache Plugin for WordPress, our holiday gift to you!

    LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) uses the LSCache plugin for WordPress to communicate with LiteSpeed Web Server and LSCache to statically cache your dynamic WordPress pages, greatly reducing page load time and server load. As development continues, we will be adding many more features – such as ESI support similar to what can be seen in LiteMage Cache for Magento.

    Download LSCWP Plugin (Requires LSWS 5.0.10+)
    LSCWP Installation Guide

    As this is only a beta release, we are counting on the LiteSpeed community to help test the LSCWP plugin as we move closer to an official release. To provide us with any bug reports, feedback, or suggestions, email us at info@litespeedtech.com.

    Happy Holidays from everyone at LiteSpeed!

  • PHP 7 vs HHVM Benchmark Series 3: How fast can WordPress go?

    PHP 7 vs HHVM Benchmark Series 3: How fast can WordPress go?

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    In our previous PHP 7 vs HHVM benchmark, Benchmark Series 2: WordPress, we saw HHVM outperform PHP 7 by 7% on WordPress. That test was performed without any cache involvement to test pure HHVM and PHP 7 performance. In our recent Getting the Best WordPress Performance article, we saw just how much of a difference a page cache can make in regards to WordPress performance.

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