OpenLiteSpeed Web Server is a free, open-source web server, and compatible with commonly-used Apache features, including mod_rewrite, .htaccess, and mod_security. LSWS can load Apache configuration files directly and works as a drop-in replacement for Apache while fully integrating with popular control panels. LSWS replaces all Apache functions, but uses an event driven approach to handle requests.
LiteSpeed Technologies was founded in early 2002 by a team of engineers led by George Wang. On July 1, 2003, LiteSpeed Web Server was officially released as a full-featured web server. In 2007, LiteSpeed Web Server became LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise and was configured to be an Apache drop-in replacement. In that same year, the web server integrated with cPanel, Direct Admin, and Plesk. LiteSpeed Web Server officially began supporting HTTP/2 in 2015 with version 5.0, and also released LSCache (cache plugin for WordPress) with ESI.
if you want to use the commercial version with all the extras for free :
Free Starter License
Our Free Starter License provides single site owners with the power of LiteSpeed Web Server at no cost! Free Starter is a full LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise license restricted to one domain and 2GB of memory. It is 100% free for the life of the license.
AFAIK the “problem” with LS is that insane license they enforce, trying to decide which type of websites you can and cannot host with their software. I don’t know if that’s still in effect or if it applies to the OLS project. They’ve been faster than Apache/nginx for ages.
Yeah, no. Anyone who tells me that they don’t like my political views, and they don’t want me using their product- I have no interest in supporting.
The internet, once a safe place for everyone, is slowly becoming a hugbox where anyone who has radical views that people should work for a living, and keep their ideologies to themselves rather than a billboard, is no longer welcome.
My LAeMpP stack works just fine for my needs, other than taking about 30 seconds to start cold until the local dnsmasq caches because my lazy ass used name-based virtualhosts to make shit easier to move.