Fast forward a quarter century later, and Apache is showing its age. The Internet isn’t the same as it was in 1995. Simple text-only sites have given way to dynamic content-rich sites. As more people discovered the Internet, websites got busier and the demand on web servers grew. And as broadband connections got faster, slow web servers really started to stand out. Although Apache did a pretty good job of adapting, some people started to wonder if they could do things better.
To understand how this benefits your website, let’s consider two coffee shops that work with in two very different ways:
In the Apache coffee shop, you’d walk in, place your order, and then wait. The barista would take your order, make your drink, collect your payment, hand you your change, print a receipt, and send you on your way. This works well for a small shop with only a few customers. But what if the shop gets busy? You can add more baristas, but sooner or later you simply run out of space. You’ll also have to add more cash registers, more coffee stations, more counterspace, and so on. Next thing you know, barista #17 is helping customer #25 while barista #32 is explaining to customer #44 for the fifth time that there’s no such thing as a triple decaf soy mocha latte coffee-free. Meanwhile, thanks to the limited space behind the counter, the ten baristas keep crashing into each other, spilling drinks and mixing up orders. Some customers don’t get served, while others don’t get what they ordered. And the few who do get their order had to wait an awfully long time to get it.
The end result? Your website is faster, more efficient, and can handle a larger volume of traffic. And you don’t have to worry about the “sticky variable” problems that you get with some front-end caches like Varnish. And because LiteSpeed is fully Apache-compatible, there are no confusing reconfigurations or recompilations to get your apps to run — they just work out of the box!
The 90s were great, but some things are best left buried in that decade. Don’t let your website be one of them. See how much faster our LiteSpeed-powered servers can deliver your site.
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