We thought some one might be interested in a new high performance web platform for PHP scripting. Apologize to who are not interested.
LiteSpeed Web Server 1.3.1 is released
Litespeed Technologies is proud to bring you Litespeed web server 1.3.1.
LiteSpeed Web Server is a full-featured, cross platform, high-performance, secure, and easy-to-use Web server. It supports HTTP/1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, PHP, JSP, Servlets, GZIP compression, .htaccess, chroot, IP level throttling, connection accounting, DoS attack prevention, and instant recovery mechanisms. In addition to being a high performance web server, it can also be used as a content accelerator, compression proxy or security guard running in front of any Web server and application server.
Major feature enhancements since release 1.2.2 are:
1. a high performance reverse proxy implementation
2. hotlink protection,
3. improved connection accounting/throttling algorithm
4. improved Fast CGI process manager
5. graceful shutdown
6. easy PHP opcode cache installation. (supports MMCache and APC)
7. option to hide server version string in response header,
8. options to customize the required and restricted permission mask
for static files
9. performance improvements under severe loadSince 1.3, Litespeed web server can be configured as a Reverse Proxy running in front of any web server or application server that supports HTTP protocol, acting as a content accelerator, compression proxy, and providing an extra layer of protection against DoS attacks.
Litespeed web server is an optimal platform for high volume PHP driven web site. It is the only web server which supports PHP scripting out of box with zero configuration required. A PHP opcode cache can be enabled during the installation. Not only is running PHP easy, but our benchmark shows that dynamic content with PHP and LiteSpeed combination is up to 50% faster than Apache with mod_php.
On static content, LiteSpeed is significantly faster than Apache 1.3/2.0 and even exceed that of TUX. Our benchmark results are available at http://www.litespeedtech.com/benchmark.html. Litespeed will bring the most out of your existing web server hardware.
Try LiteSpeed and experience the speed yourself. We are confident LiteSpeed will not disappoint.
For more information please visit http://www.litespeedtech.com/
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