LiteSpeed Technologies Releases High-Performance Apache Replacement Web Server

March 21, 2007; 03:20 AM

LiteSpeed Technologies has released LiteSpeed Web Server 3.0, providing administrators with an exceptional Apache replacement option complete with third party control panel support and improved Apache interchangeability.

Development of LiteSpeed Web Server began in 2002 and was first released to the public in 2003. LiteSpeed Web Server has featured superior capacity to handle thousands of concurrent connections with small memory footprint, outstanding performance, enterprise level security, automatic online updates, and a user-friendly web administration interface. These qualities have all been improved upon in the 3.0 release.

By taking advantage of a highly-optimized LiteSpeed API protocol that minimizes memory usage while maximizing performance for an external scripting engine, LiteSpeed Web Server is one of the best platforms for web sites powered by PHP and Ruby on Rails.

In the new release, Apache interchangeability has been greatly improved, which not only provides support for most commonly used Apache features, but also makes LiteSpeed the only high performance Apache drop-in replacement that can operate directly from Apache configuration files. Beta users have demonstrated that LiteSpeed works flawlessly in conjunction with popular control panels like cPanel, DirectAdmin, and other control panels in real world shared web hosting environments. Thanks to improved performance of both static and dynamic content delivery along with reduced memory footprint, replacing Apache with LiteSpeed usually results in doubled server capacity or better.

George Wang, founder and lead software architect of LiteSpeed Technologies, promises high-quality products and services.

"Compared to other lightweight web servers out there, LiteSpeed not only provides better performance, it also offers commonly used Apache features without compromising security, usability or scalability. Our software is backed by knowledgeable technical support with fast turnaround, making LiteSpeed a server people can trust for mission-critical infrastructure."

Since 2003, LiteSpeed web servers have powered some of the most popular web sites on the internet. According to Netcraft's latest web server market share survey, LiteSpeed currently powers over 80,000 domain names.

About LiteSpeed Technologies

Based in New Jersey with a satellite branch in Los Angeles, LiteSpeed Technologies (www.litespeedtech.com) is a next-generation web platform company that is dedicated to providing businesses with technology to improve the speed of internet content delivery while reducing operational costs for large web sites, service providers, and enterprise data centers.