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LiteSpeed or Apache

by ScottieDog
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Is there a way of telling whether my hosting is on LiteSpeed or Apache?

I guess it says in the cPanel somewhere?
#apache #litespeed
  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    Here's one way to check it.

    Create a file called phpinfo.php and paste this inside it -
    <?php
    phpinfo();
    ?>
    Upload it to your server and access the file through your browser i.e; www.yourdomain.com/wherever-you-put-the-file/phpinfo.php

    Search for the Server API field.

    Delete the file after.

    Sumit.
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    • Profile picture of the author ScottieDog
      Originally Posted by Sumit Menon View Post

      Here's one way to check it.

      Create a file called phpinfo.php and paste this inside it -
      Upload it to your server and access the file through your browser i.e; www.yourdomain.com/wherever-you-put-the-file/phpinfo.php

      Search for the Server API field.

      Delete the file after.

      Sumit.

      Thank-you. Will try this later when I get back home. Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    Why do you need to know? I'll bet dollars to donuts they're using Apache though.
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    • Profile picture of the author ScottieDog
      Originally Posted by wayfarer View Post

      Why do you need to know? I'll bet dollars to donuts they're using Apache though.
      I just want to know, without having to ask them direct.

      It´s been bought to my attention that LiteSpeed is faster, and a new server I have is on LiteSpeed and is faster.
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      • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
        Originally Posted by ScottieDog View Post

        It´s been bought to my attention that LiteSpeed is faster, and a new server I have is on LiteSpeed and is faster.
        Yeah, I've heard good things about it, but faster is not always better. Sometimes the older, slower, more mature product is actually better. More people know how it works, and it is generally better supported. That's why Apache is so successful, everyone knows how it works, and it's super powerful and supported. I've never noticed a host using anything else, if they're running Linux, you'd probably have to specifically select a LiteSpeed host if that's what you want. Maybe I'm behind the times when it comes to shared hosting though, a lot can change in a short period of time.

        Of course, you could always just run a EC2 instance and install whatever you want, but you really need to know what you're doing to do that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chr
    What web host are you using?
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    • Profile picture of the author ScottieDog
      Originally Posted by Chr View Post

      What web host are you using?
      I have 4 different web-hosts. None of them are the usual ones you would know. IE: Not HostGator, not BlueHost etc etc.

      Don´t want to name them.
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  • Profile picture of the author kohashi
    If you're really concerned about speed I would check out nginx.
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    • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
      Originally Posted by kohashi View Post

      If you're really concerned about speed I would check out nginx.
      Well nginx is the "geeks way", that's for sure. It's usually only used for static resources though.
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      • Profile picture of the author ScottieDog
        Originally Posted by wayfarer View Post

        Well nginx is the "geeks way", that's for sure. It's usually only used for static resources though.
        I Googled it and could see it wasn´t for me. LOL.

        Thanks for the reco though
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      • Profile picture of the author kohashi
        Originally Posted by wayfarer View Post

        Well nginx is the "geeks way", that's for sure. It's usually only used for static resources though.
        It works amazingly well for static resources but it doesn't have to be. I like sticking it in front of apache as a reverse proxy/cache. Static files get served from memory (near instant) and non-static stuff can be fed back to apache to serve.

        It is more complicated than a simple cPanel plan, but the performance difference is staggering. The nice thing is you can throw it on it's own server in front of your normal hosting, even on ec2 micro instance I was sustaining 300 users/second.

        Not for everyone, but if you want performance, I would take a little bit of time and try it out. There is a ton of material to reference and get setup with.
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    Haha, yeah, I doubt there's Cpanel for Nginx. IM folks usually need higher-tech solutions.
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  • Profile picture of the author ScottieDog
    I was reading another topic on this board, about this guy who hosts his sites on his own home server.. was interesting but only considered it for about 5 seconds. lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chr
    My view is that LiteSpeed isn't as much faster than Apache as most LiteSpeed hosts like to say (theres some common numbers of 1.5 times faster for certain PHP requests and 9 times faster for static content).

    I don't think there's much of a difference between well managed Apache and well managed LiteSpeed.

    Don't know enough about nginx to have an opinion.

    I have 4 different web-hosts. None of them are the usual ones you would know. IE: Not HostGator, not BlueHost etc etc.
    ? I know of a lot of LiteSpeed hosts. HawkHost and MDD are two of my common recommendations, both use LiteSpeed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
    I'd suggest doing a search and comparing the benchmarks because you will hear a lot of hear-say on this "LiteSpeed vs Apache" subject, especially from people who have not actually compared the 2.
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