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<h2 id="features">Features</h2> <p>LSWS is compatible with commonly-used Apache features, including <a href="/facts/Mod_rewrite/4o1p9l7C">mod_rewrite</a>, <a href="/facts/.htaccess/XRjSaQJr">.htaccess</a>, and <a href="/facts/Mod_security/s7e1sXoh">mod_security</a>. 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.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>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 <a href="/facts/CPanel/C72zQD2h">cPanel</a>, <a href="/facts/DirectAdmin/rPKQlrw9">DirectAdmin</a>, and <a href="/facts/Plesk/yyI3oVeL">Plesk</a>. LiteSpeed Web Server officially began supporting <a href="/facts/HTTP%2f2/L7V7rfeP">HTTP/2</a> in 2015 with version 5.0, and also released LSCache (cache plugin for WordPress) with ESI in version 5.0.10.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> In 2017, LSWS released QUIC support.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> In July 2019, LSWS announced support for <a href="/facts/HTTP%2f3/SUASQpzB">HTTP/3</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_web_server_software/KvaLExq9">Comparison of web server software</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Web_server/A4GS6thA">Web server</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Usage of web servers for websites". W3Techs. Retrieved 26 September 2024. <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server" target="_blank">https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"August 2015 Web Server Survey". Netcraft. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2017. <a href="https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/08/13/august-2015-web-server-survey.html" target="_blank">https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/08/13/august-2015-web-server-survey.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Adelstein, Tom; Lubanovic, Bill (2007). Linux system administration (1st ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. p. 162. ISBN 9780596009526. OCLC 71808193. <a href="9780596009526" target="_blank">9780596009526</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"How to install OpenLiteSpeed on Rocky Linux 9 | CentLinux". www.centlinux.com. 18 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-20. <a href="https://www.centlinux.com/2023/04/install-openlitespeed-on-rocky-linux-9.html" target="_blank">https://www.centlinux.com/2023/04/install-openlitespeed-on-rocky-linux-9.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Get OpenLiteSpeed!". 28 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019. <a href="https://openlitespeed.org/" target="_blank">https://openlitespeed.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"August 2008 Web Server Survey". Netcraft. 29 August 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2017. <a href="https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/08/29/august_2008_web_server_survey.html" target="_blank">https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/08/29/august_2008_web_server_survey.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"November 2016 Web Server Survey". Netcraft. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2017. <a href="https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/11/22/november-2016-web-server-survey.html" target="_blank">https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/11/22/november-2016-web-server-survey.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Jiang, M.; Luo, X.; Miu, T.; Hu, S.; Rao, W. (June 2017). "Are HTTP/2 Servers Ready Yet?". 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). pp. 1661–1671. doi:10.1109/icdcs.2017.279. ISBN 978-1-5386-1792-2. S2CID 4700093. <a href="978-1-5386-1792-2" target="_blank">978-1-5386-1792-2</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Zimmermann, Torsten; Rüth, Jan; Wolters, Benedikt; Hohlfeld, Oliver (2017). "How HTTP/2 Pushes the Web: An Empirical Study of HTTP/2 Server Push" (PDF). IFIP Networking Conference. <a href="http://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/networking/networking2017/1570332989.pdf" target="_blank">http://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/networking/networking2017/1570332989.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"Distribution of Web Servers among websites that use HTTP/3". W3techs.com. 26 September 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024. <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/segmentation/ce-http3/web_server" target="_blank">https://w3techs.com/technologies/segmentation/ce-http3/web_server</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Netcraft web server survey". Netcraft. 17 September 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024. <a href="https://www.netcraft.com/blog/september-2024-web-server-survey/" target="_blank">https://www.netcraft.com/blog/september-2024-web-server-survey/</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Event-Driven vs. Process-Based Web Servers". LiteSpeed. Retrieved 1 September 2017. <a href="https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/features/event-driven-architecture" target="_blank">https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/features/event-driven-architecture</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"LiteSpeed Web Server Release Log Archive". LiteSpeed. Retrieved 1 September 2017. <a href="https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/release-log-archive" target="_blank">https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/release-log-archive</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"LiteSpeed Announces QUIC Support". 11 July 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017. <a href="https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2017/07/11/litespeed-announces-quic-support/" target="_blank">https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2017/07/11/litespeed-announces-quic-support/</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>"LiteSpeed Web Server Release Log". <a href="https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/release-log" target="_blank">https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/release-log</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>