{"id":761,"date":"2020-07-26T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T08:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostingspell.com\/blog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2020-07-26T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T08:59:35","slug":"nginx-versus-litespeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hostingspell.com\/nginx-versus-litespeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nginx versus LiteSpeed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First of all, what is a web server?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, a web server is a software installed on your server. Receiving HTTP requests, processing it and sending back response is its responsibility. Additional programs like PHP is required by a web server to obtain the output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nginx versus LiteSpeed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nginx<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nginx [ pronounced as engine x], is an open-source web server. Originally created by Igor Sysoev (Russia), Nginx is used by companies like Facebook, Autodesk, Twitter and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is used as HTTP cache, reverse proxy and load balancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nginx has an open-source \u201cNginx\u201d<\/em> and \u201cNginx Plus\u201d(paid version)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nginx is known to outperform other web servers in benchmark tests with its source in performance optimization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LiteSpeed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estimated to be used by 6.4% of websites, LiteSpeed is one of the most popular web server software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is compatible with apache features and uses the same configuration as Apache HTTP Server. LiteSpeed works as a drop-in replacement for Apache because it can read and load .htaccess files<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, an open-source version of LiteSpeed, OpenLiteSpeed, <\/em>was released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A web server which is easy to use is essential. But it means nothing if the webserver does not perform well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TTFB<\/strong> \u2013 \u2018Time to First Byte\u2019 is the time taken by the browser to get a response from the server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenLiteSpeed has a slightly better TTFB, compared to Nginx. There is not much difference between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stress test<\/strong> \u2013 helps in determining how a web server responds to heavy traffic in a short period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 10k requests per second, almost 50% of the request timed out in Nginx. In OpenLiteSpeed, the timed-out requests were only 6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With an average response time of 2.8 seconds, OpenLiteSpeed has shown better performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Market share<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nginx is leading in the top 10k, 100k and 1M websites. It has grabbed the top position in the entire web with almost 12% websites using Nginx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LiteSpeed, despite its recent growth, is ranked behind Nginx in the market shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Websites<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nginx has better coverage of website categories. This includes Electronics and Technology, Entertainment, Science and education, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LiteSpeed has not taken over Nginx\u2019s rank in this section yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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