Comments on How to Install and Configure OpenLiteSpeed Server along with MariaDB and PHP on Ubuntu 20.04

OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight and open-source version of the LiteSpeed Server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install OpenLiteSpeed Server on Ubuntu 20.04 along with PHP 7.4 and MariaDB server.

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By: Natan Ray

Hi,

Thanks for the nice article. I have a question, is there any RAM limit to install this open-source version? Is there any license needed? Can it be run on web hosting server?

By: Max38

@Natan Since no one else has replied (maybe because the function doesn't seem to work), I'll give you a non-authoritative answer.  I have installed OLS on a Google Cloud Compute Engine "free tier" instance with 512MB memory and it runs well (low traffic) and didn't require any kind of license.  I use OLS because it works well with their other products like LSCache and QUICK.cloud CDN, which are all free for low-ish use, and performance is really good (if not the best).  Actually OLS is always free and really shines when you have a bit more resources and high traffic.  You can google comparisons to Nginx and in any, I've seen performance is best with OLS.  When you get to WP cache plugins and CDNs the comparisons become more debatable, but nevertheless, among the best.  Like many other similar products, small sites without too much traffic fall under free use levels, and as you scale you start to incur costs (which is justified).  When I build small sites using this setup I get 100%/100% on gtmetrix often even when hosted on a cheap shared host.  It SMOKES on clouds like DO.

By: SeCrEt BoY™

Hi,

What server specs for this article?

My instance is 8 CPU and 64 RAM (just only running Webserver).

Is this variables is optimized for me? Thanks for help!

Environment: PHP_LSAPI_MAX_REQUESTS=500 PHP_LSAPI_CHILDREN=35 LSAPI_AVOID_FORK=200M

By: SeCrEt BoY™

Hi,

What server specs for this article?

My instance is 8 CPU and 64 RAM (just only running Webserver).

Is this variables is optimized for me? Thanks for help!

Environment: PHP_LSAPI_MAX_REQUESTS=500 PHP_LSAPI_CHILDREN=35 LSAPI_AVOID_FORK=200M