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I'm considering moving my current main site over to a Litespeed server with Litespeed Cache. Over time my current "legacy VPS" as it is now called has experienced a slower and slower time to first byte and general slowness it feels.
If you look around the net for information about Litespeed, you'll be amazed. It's the most shilled topic in existence, from fake reviews to fake benchmarks to fake fanboys and then it gets even worse because the fanboys of Nginx and Apache come in and make it doubly as bad.
Every single benchmark test, even the honest ones in articles or on Youtube all have some glaring idiocy involved. So it's completely impossible to get a true read on how much better it is or not. The only conclusion I could come to was that it truly does require less resources at much higher traffic levels. A lower powered Litespeed server can handle as much power as a more expensive Apache or Nginx server, if they're all tuned to the max.
One thing I'm not thrilled about is hearing that the Litespeed Cache is similar to Varnish cache, which isn't a big deal but it does annoy me when trying to development work, because it seems difficult to flush and get a current reading on the server.
Anyways, my point here is, has anyone made the jump and paid attention to the improvements or lack thereof? I'll take anecdotal evidence, gut feeling, people moving from Nginx, whatever. I just need some real life opinions. Thank you.
If you look around the net for information about Litespeed, you'll be amazed. It's the most shilled topic in existence, from fake reviews to fake benchmarks to fake fanboys and then it gets even worse because the fanboys of Nginx and Apache come in and make it doubly as bad.
Every single benchmark test, even the honest ones in articles or on Youtube all have some glaring idiocy involved. So it's completely impossible to get a true read on how much better it is or not. The only conclusion I could come to was that it truly does require less resources at much higher traffic levels. A lower powered Litespeed server can handle as much power as a more expensive Apache or Nginx server, if they're all tuned to the max.
One thing I'm not thrilled about is hearing that the Litespeed Cache is similar to Varnish cache, which isn't a big deal but it does annoy me when trying to development work, because it seems difficult to flush and get a current reading on the server.
Anyways, my point here is, has anyone made the jump and paid attention to the improvements or lack thereof? I'll take anecdotal evidence, gut feeling, people moving from Nginx, whatever. I just need some real life opinions. Thank you.
