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Litespeed web server goes open source with OpenLiteSpeed
Looks like Litespeed web server is releasing an open source free version called OpenLiteSpeed http://www.litespeedtech.com/latest/announcing-the-release-of-openlitespeed.html
Screenshots for admin control panel for folks not familiar with Litespeed Enterprise's GUI based control panel posted at http://vbtechsupport.com/2165/
Will be interesting to see how OpenLiteSpeed fairs 
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Oh! Yes! That could be interesting!
Yes! Now what's the catch...
Do I have to be a programmer and rewrite it to use more than half a core? :P
OpenLiteSpeed allows worker processes in order to scale to multiple processors.
well that's what the official site says heh
This is nice! A client of mine runs Litespeed in front of Passenger for a few Django applications, and hell that shit is good, fast, and apache compatible... Maybe I can deploy it to some LEB's now
Im not sure I see the benefit of this over Nginx as it loses the apache compatibility
We recently deployed LiteSpeed to stop the layer 7 attacks we were getting and it worked amazingly. I really hate LiteSpeed's TOS though where they tell you what kinds of sites you can and can't run on a webserver that you are paying for. Hopefully their open source version is less restrictive.
Indeed looking forward to testing PHP performance, as Litespeed LSAPI PHP very very very scalable in terms of PHP performance under high concurrency PHP loads i.e. >13,000 PHP requests/s (Litespeed Enterprise web server)
OpenLiteSpeed fully supports Apache rewrite syntax just not via .htaccess files it seems. Admin control panel for vhost has a rewrite tab so I guess .htaccess contents goes there.
Would it be hard to implement .htaccess rewrites into this? I doubt it.
Ease of use.
GPL v3.
I aught to bring the apache compatibility back in.
They are a dollar short and a day late. Considering their pricing, TOS and features, thanks, but no thanks!
So they just release nginx renamed?
@BronzeByte - It's not based on Nginx in any way, shape or form, but I guess you meant it like "it's similar to Nginx". Honestly, I wish them the best, however I won't be giving up on Nginx any time soon because of this.
Waiting for the benchmarks, memory usage, etc :P
Nginx has been open source all the time, can't be better or worse really, same story as with MySQL and mongo
Erm, yea. Panel dont work properly.
Trying to create a php configuration using the template and when on
Are you sure you want to instantiate this virtual host?
Yes Cancel
Click yes > white page
With a lovely
PHP Warning: Invalid argum/html.open/classes/DUtil.php on line 219
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function HasVal() on a non-object in /usr/local/lsws/admin/html.open/classes/ows/ConfCenter.php on line 910
The LiteSpeed TOS was the only thing I liked about LiteSpeed...
You mean you liked that they could disallow you using software you paid for if they don't like what you are hosting?
I only liked their TOS because it made the decision easy: I could not use it for my sites and therefore did not have to buy it. Happy with nginx since then...
Kind of curious to see how this turns out. I do have to admit, I did not expect this.
hmm this got my attention.
@joepie91 - Looking at the source code, what can you tell us?
now that they have done this, how long before someone creates a cpanel addon with the opensource version.
Has anyone had luck getting it to run? I just tried a ./configure && make -j4 && make install but it looks like they're compiling a custom version of php in there that needed something, I'll try again later.
Works out of the box for me on Centos 6 32-bit.
Indeed, I just tested it out on a bone stock CentOS 6 32-bit image and it installs great. Must be a missing debian/ubuntu package they haven't outlined.
My first attempt on debian failed because it attempted to use curl to download PHP, just installed curl and it seemed to have worked.
Did it actually start up? Mine looked like it installed, but I looked back up and php had complained at something, so the whole install didn't complete properly and it wouldn't start because a bunch of stuff was broken. This was on a couple 12.04 boxes.