Litespeed

[Moscato]

I keep seeing thread after thread after thread using litespeed webserver for their Xenforo installations

Is there a particular reason why?

Mine is on an archlinux nginx mariadb php-fpm (zendopcache) stack and I'm perfectly happy with it technically. What advantages does litespeed have?

 

[Alpha1]

LiteSpeed Cache. This is similar to Varnish.

 

[Moscato]

That's functionally identical to nginx proxy cache, or similar to nginx fastcgi cache

Easier to setup or something?

 

[rdn]

LiteSpeed Cache. This is similar to Varnish.

Also Similar to fastcgi_cache of Nginx.
I prefer Nginx much

 

[Moscato]

@RoldanLT

Also Similar to fastcgi_cache of Nginx.
I prefer Nginx much

I'm a huge fan of it myself

Still trying to figure out how to setup fastCGI_cache while not breaking the forums though

Do you use it?

 

[rdn]

@RoldanLT


I'm a huge fan of it myself

Still trying to figure out how to setup fastCGI_cache while not breaking the forums though

Do you use it?

Specific discussion on Floren's Site
https://www.axivo.com/threads/nginx-fastcgi_cache-specific-for-xenforo.80/

 

[lsmichael]

Howdy @Moscato,

Not totally sure I'm qualified to answer this (since I work for LiteSpeed), but I didn't want your thread to go dead. The biggest reason people use LSWS is that it has performance at least as good as NGINX while also remaining Apache compatible (which makes it control panel compatible and easy to set up).

As for the caching, I've never seen benchmarks comparing any of them. The functionality should be pretty similar, though I'm not that familiar with NGINX's caching. (I know more about Varnish and LSCache.)

m

 

[MattW]

It's also compatible and supported by cpanel, which is a big bonus for a lot of people.

 

[akia]

And the staff at litespeed are helpful. Even with openlitespeed they've answered every question I've had.

 

[lsmichael]

And the staff at litespeed are helpful. Even with openlitespeed they've answered every question I've had.

Thanks! We need to get faster at this, though — especially for OpenLiteSpeed.

m