LiteSpeed Web Server for Mac
Highly scalable Web-delivery platform.
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LiteSpeed Web Server overview
LiteSpeed Web Server is a high-performance, secure and easy-to-use Web server, which can handle thousands of concurrent connections with a small memory footprint. It is less vulnerable when facing various attacks.
LiteSpeed Web server is desgined to be a secure Web server. With chroot jail, IP level bandwidth throttling, connection accounting, strict HTTP request checking, and URL context filtering, DoS effects are minimized and the application backend is properly fenced away from the HTTP request layer reducing vulnerability.
- High performance Secure HTTP (HTTPS): supports SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1
- Access Control at server, virtual host and directory (context) level
- File system protection
- HTTP Authentication
- IP level throttling (Bandwidth and Request Rate)
- Comprehensive IP level connection accounting
- Hotlink protection
- Strict HTTP request checking
- Comprehensive protection for static files
- External application firewall for dynamic content
- CGI resources consumption limit
- CGI suEXEC excution and chroot
- Chroot whole server process [Enterprise Edition only]
Reliability:
- Zero downtime maintanance (include reconfiguration, software upgrade)
- Watch dog and Instant recovery maximizes up-time
- Graceful shutdown, all requests in process will be completed.
- Runs completely in the user space, OS reliability is not affected
- CGI, Fast CGI and servlet engine run in standalone processes,the reliability of the Web server is not affected by third party software.
Note: Free tier has limitations. More info here.
What’s new in version 5.4.7
Version 5.4.7:
View older LiteSpeed Web Server versions New Features:
- Added strict suEXEC and ownership checking on scripts.
- Added ability to configure static/dynamic request per second limit for Apache vhost.
Fixed:
- Fixed a symbolic link attack in directory auto index script. Thank you KnownHost for the bug report. (CloudLinux user is not affected.)
- Fixed reCAPTCHA triggering for the first access of an allowed robot.
- Added "Cache-Control: no-cache" to reCAPTCHA verification page to disallow CDN/proxy cache.
- Fixed delayed .htaccess loading.
- Fixed a delayed server response bug with HTTP/2.
- Fixed a NodeJS websocket backend configuration bug.
- Shared lib for lscmctl script is now updated on server install/update.
Improved:
- Prevent ports 443 and 80 from being used as WebAdmin listener port.
- Avoid triggering 503 errors when cPanel backend services (cpcontacts, webdisk, ...) are unavailable.
- Automatically update /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn to 1024 whenever server performs a fresh startup.
- Added after=lve_namespaces.service to systemd unit file.
LiteSpeed Web Server for Mac
Free
In English
Version 5.4.7
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Dec 17 2014
Version: 4.2.5
MacUpdate Admins,
Version 4.2.19 is current. Released 11-12-2014.
Oct 10 2010
Version: 4.0.17
How does this compare to WebSTAR? WebSTAR is a combo http, ftp and mail server which has served me well over the years, but I'm beginning to think that the PHP implementation in WebSTAR is a bit flaky, so I've been considering switching to something else. But Litespeed is only a web server, and does not include a mail server or ftp server, correct? Thanks!
Jun 11 2009
Version: 4.0.4
I can't find anything superior to the free web servers, such as Apache, nginx or lighttpd.
Mar 1 2008
Version: 3.3.6
I've done some testing of this and so far it looks good - much more logical than Apache. I still prefer Abyss web server at this point, but I strongly recommend that you check this out.
Apache really needs some strong competition as it can be a bloated pain in the butt. LiteSpeed and Abyss can do better than Apache for most needs.