Litespeed is now being used for all MonsterMegs Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting and Semi-Dedicated services. After a week of thorough beta testing and internal testing, we are proud to announce that MonsterMegs has partnered with LiteSpeed Technologies to provide LiteSpeed based web hosting. LiteSpeed is web server software which offers greater speed, reliability, and security than Apache, the current web server software we were using.
LiteSpeed offers many advantages over Apache, and you can read all about them here: http://www.litespeedtech.com/litespeed-web-server-features.html. Some of the main features are listed below:
Performance
- Up to 9 times faster than Apache
- PHP performance increases 50%
- Best Ruby on Rail performance
- 3 times faster than Apache in SSL
- Efficient CGI daemon
- High performance Perl daemon
- SSL Hardware acceleration
Security
- Strictest HTTP request validation
- Deny any buffer-overrun attempts
- Anti-DDoS: Throttling & Connection Accounting
- System overloading prevention
- Chroot web server process
- CGI/FCGI/LSAPI/PHP/RUBY suEXEC
- Virtual host chroot
If anyone notices any issues please let us know by submitting a ticket to our support department.
