What's better? LiteSpeed vs Nginx + Apache

Babene7

• February 11, 2022 10:15

Hello everyone, I'm wondering what's your experience when it comes to the different web servers available for cPanel. I've been using LiteSpeed (premium version) for a few years now, haven't tried Nginx + Apache in cPanel servers yet. I'm pretty happy with LS but I would like to know if the performance is better (or worse) with Nginx + Apache. Thank you!

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 11, 2022 15:26

  Hey there! I tend to avoid any discussions about what is "best" since those always seem to devolve into opinions rather than facts. If you do a search for "litespeed vs nginx" you'll see many different reviews on different hosts and hardware. The "best" is ultimately what works well for you and your users.

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  ffeingol

  • February 11, 2022 16:18

  It may also turn into a time vs money decision. The money for LSWS vs the time configuring Apache+Nginx.

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  vacancy

  • February 11, 2022 18:11

  Benchmarks are there, litespeed is unbeatable. Especially nginx proxy behind apache has no chance.

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  mywhm

  • May 02, 2022 15:41

  Related case litespeed vs nginx: Litespeed 5.4 is faster than Litespeed 5.3 and faster than their tested default distro installed Nginx 1.16 which runs default non-optimal configuration. But Nginx can be configured and tuned to match Litespeed for some usage scenarios if you know how to configure Nginx.

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  Rachel S

  • September 27, 2022 10:55

  Hello Babene7, I hope you are doing well! You can check the particular benefits of both web servers below. It will help you in choosing one over the other, The main difference between Apache and NGINX lies in their design architecture. Apache uses a process-driven approach and creates a new thread for each request. At the same time, NGINX uses an event-driven architecture to handle multiple requests within one thread. The HTTP or Apache server is an open-source, cross-platform web server known as "httpd." NGINX is more popular than Apache Web Server now due to various factors. Apache Servers static content using the file base method while Nginx servers static resources without using PHP. Apache Supports all Unix systems, including Linux & BSD also fully supports MS-Windows, while Nginx almost supports Unix OS and Windows partially. Moreover, Nginx has a lightweight structure and much faster architecture than Apache. I hope this information will be helpful for you in choosing the web server. ------------------------ Regards, Rachel S

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