LiteSpeed Web Server
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LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is proprietary web server software. It is the 4th most popular web server, estimated to be used by 10% of websites as of July 2021.[3] LSWS is developed by privately held LiteSpeed Technologies. The software uses the same configuration format as Apache HTTP Server and is compatible with most Apache features.[4][5] An open source variant[6] is also available.[7]
Original author(s) | George Wang |
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Developer(s) | LiteSpeed Technologies |
Initial release | July 1, 2003; 20 years ago (July 1, 2003)[1] |
Stable release | |
Written in | C, C++ |
Operating system | CloudLinux OS, AlmaLinux/Centos/Red Hat/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, FreeBSD |
Type | Web server |
License | Non-free proprietary or GPL3 |
Website | www |
LSWS was released in 2003, and in August 2008 it became the 16th most popular web server.[8] In November 2016, LiteSpeed's market share grew from 0.39% to 3.29%, increasing its position from 10th to 4th most popular web server according to Netcraft.[9] In 2017, a team from Hong Kong Polytechnic University found it to be one of the six most popular web servers,[10] and it was estimated by a team at RWTH Aachen University to be running 9.2% of all HTTP/2-enabled websites.[11] As of April 2020, LSWS was used by 69.3% of websites using QUIC[12] and 47.6% of websites using HTTP/3.[13]
According to a Netcraft web server survey, LiteSpeed had not grown beyond 3% of global market share as of 2021.[14]
LiteSpeed Cache plugin, also known as LSCache, is a cache and performance management plugin for websites developed specifically for LiteSpeed Web Server. You can download this plugin from WordPress.