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LiteSpeed Blog
Company blog · blog.litespeedtech.comwebsystems
LiteSpeed Blog is the company blog at blog.litespeedtech.com, writing about web and systems. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link LiteSpeed's blog when discussing web server speed, mainly its benchmarks comparing LiteSpeed with Nginx, Apache and Varnish, and its ModSecurity performance results. Commenters cite these posts as evidence.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tips and tutorials, product announcements, benchmarks, and company news from LiteSpeed Technologies, Inc.
What Hacker News says?
> You keep on repeating the idea that no one needs both Varnish and Nginx in their design. I never said that at any point. What I did say was your reasoning that Varnish is faster than Nginx is flawed: Apache+Varnish is 97% faster than Litespeed [1] Litespeed is faster than Nginx [2] *therefore I infer* Varnish is faster than Nginx. Those cited benchmarks are both crap, and if they are relevant to a particular setup…
Comment linking /2010/01/06/benchmark-comparison-on-serving-simple-php-litespeed-vs-apache-vs-nginx/
on “How to build your own CDN using BIND, GeoIP, Nginx, Varnish”Submitted Announcing the Release of OpenLiteSpeed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere was a point in the article about WAFs being quite slow, in particular the article talks about Nginx with ModSecurity. However, some benchmarks from a while ago suggested that Nginx performs worse with ModSecurity than Apache does in a similar configuration: https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2019/12/02/modsecurity-perfor... Seems like Coraza also has some more recent benchmarks, since from what I can tell they mor…
Comment linking /2019/12/02/modsecurity-performance-apache-nginx-litespeed/
on “Discouraging the use of web application firewalls”Submitted LiteSpeed server products are not vulnerable to the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAny claims about "fastest webserver" also need to add the qualifier "free". Because I believe litespeed is faster, though the free version has a simultaneous connection limit. It's even faster than nginx in some cases. http://blog.litespeedtech.com/2010/01/06/benchmark-compariso... Also, litespeed is practically a drop-in replacement for apache since it can obey httpd.conf and .htaccess files which no other webserve…
Comment linking /2010/01/06/benchmark-comparison-on-serving-simple-php-litespeed-vs-apache-vs-nginx/
on “Cherokee Webserver, "The Fastest", Really?”