What's better? LiteSpeed vs Nginx + Apache

[Babene7]

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!

 

[cPRex]

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.

 

[ffeingol]

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

 

[vacancy]

Benchmarks are there, litespeed is unbeatable.

Especially nginx proxy behind apache has no chance.

WordPress Benchmarks - LiteSpeed Technologies

Compare WordPress performance on LiteSpeed Web Server Vs. Apache and Nginx using LSCache, WPRocket, W3TC, and FCGI cache solutions.

www.litespeedtech.com

Magento 2 HTTP/2 Benchmarks - LiteSpeed Technologies

Which loads Magento 2 faster via HTTP/2: LiteSpeed Web Server, nginx or Apache? We ran a series of Magento 2 HTTP/2 benchmarks, to compare LSWS + LiteMage, nginx + Varnish, and Apache + Varnish. LiteSpeed Magento 2 is 3X faster than nginx and 4X faster than Apache!

www.litespeedtech.com

Prestashop Performance Benchmarks - LiteSpeed Technologies

In our most recent demonstration of what page caching gets you, we put our LSCache extension to the test on a PrestaShop demo site, against uncached Apache and nginx. Find out the Results.

www.litespeedtech.com

OpenCart HTTP/2 Benchmarks - LiteSpeed Technologies

Which loads OpenCart faster via HTTP/2: LiteSpeed Web Server, nginx or Apache? We ran a series of OpenCart HTTP/2 benchmarks, to compare LSWS + LSCache, nginx, and Apache. LiteSpeed OpenCart is considerably faster than uncached nginx and Apache!

www.litespeedtech.com

 

[mywhm]

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.

HTTP/2 HTTPS Benchmarking Litespeed vs Nginx - make use of your idle servers

Thought this would be of interesting for all the folks here with idle servers doing nothing :) Came across WHT thread at https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1775139 which asked whether HTTP/2 HTTPS benchmarks posted at https://http2benchmark.org/ are real and I chimed in on that...

lowendtalk.com

Nginx is 100x faster than Litespeed for WordPress

hey guys I just want to stop by Lowend and share new benchmarks and the result are finally here that you have been waiting for after so much confusion.......

lowendtalk.com

 

[Rachel S]

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.

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Regards,
Rachel S