MediaLayer Technology
LiteSpeed Web Server is a highly-efficient web server daemon engineered to deliver the maximum performance for today's web 2.0 applications and beyond. MediaLayer is one of the first web hosts to establish a partnership with LiteSpeed, and in doing so, we offer LiteSpeed to all of our application hosting customers. LiteSpeed delivers over 50% better performance for PHP applications, up to 600% for static content, and double the SSL performance. Furthermore, LiteSpeed is fully compatible with Apache configuration, including popular modules such as mod_rewrite.
Resilience to Denial of Service Attacks
In this day and age, denial of service (DoS) attacks are some of the most popular threats on the web. LiteSpeed offers built-in protection to automatically mitigate such attacks and perform throttling to preserve system resources.
Request Filter
LiteSpeed has developed a module known as Request Filter to offer full compatibility for mod_security rulesets, and does so in a very efficient manner, to reduce impact on performance and resource usage. MediaLayer utilizes the Request Filter feature to protect hosted applications from popular exploitations and vulnerabilities.
GZIP Compression
Dynamic files are compressed on the fly at GZIP Level 1, to offer a perfect balance between performance and resource usage. Static files are intelligently cached in compressed form to further increase performance, and decrease resource usage. According to our benchmarks, GZIP compression will typically reduce the size of a file as much as 80%.
Zero Downtime Graceful Restart
LiteSpeed allows MediaLayer to maximize web server uptime by making no interruption to service when restarted - whether that is for a simple configuration change, or a core software update.
Questions?
No problem! If you have any questions regarding LiteSpeed, please feel free to ask our sales department: sales@medialayer.com.