LiteSpeed Web Server Mac

LiteSpeed Web Server is a high performance, secure and easy-to-use web server, which can handle thousands of concurrent connections with a small memory footprint. It is less vulnerable when facing various attacks.

Some Features of LiteSpeed Web Server:
HTTP/1.1

Backward compatible with HTTP/1.0
Chunked Transfer Encoding
Basic Authentication (htpasswd and LDAP backend)
Entity Tag
Range/Multi-range Request
Static and dynamic content compression(gzip)

IPv6 support
API Connectivity

CGI/1.1
FastCGI
LSAPI (LiteSpeed SAPI)
AJP 1.3
Transparent Reverse Proxy (interface to back-end web server, application server)

Dynamic Language Support

PHP (CGI,FastCGI,LSAPI), compatible with 3rd party PHP Accelerators.
JSP/Servlet (AJP)
Perl (CGI, FastCGI)
Ruby/Roby on Rails (CGI, FastCGI, LSAPI)
Python (CGI, FastCGI)
C/C++ (CGI, FastCGI, LSAPI)

URL Rewriting

URL Rewriting is fully compatible with Apache's rewrite configuration

.Htaccess Support

Apache compatible distributed per-directory Access Control and Authentication configuration.

Request filtering

Perform deep inspection of request header and body, using Apache mod_security compatible configuration directives.

MS Frontpage server extension 2002

Supports content publishing with MS Frontpage client.

Virtual Hosting

Supports IP based and name based virtual hosting

Security

LiteSpeed web server is desgined to be a secure web server. With chroot jail, IP level bandwidth throttling, connection accounting, strict HTTP request checking, and URL context filtering, DoS effects are minimized and the application backend is properly fenced away from the HTTP request layer reducing vulnerability.

High performance Secure HTTP (HTTPS): supports SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1
Access Control at server, virtual host and directory (context) level
File system protection
HTTP Authentication
IP level throttling (Bandwidth and Request Rate)
Comprehensive IP level connection accounting
Hotlink protection
Strict HTTP request checking
Comprehensive protection for static files
External application firewall for dynamic content
CGI resources consumption limit
CGI suEXEC excution and chroot
Chroot whole server process[Enterprise Edition only]

Reliability

Zero downtime maintanance (include reconfiguration, software upgrade)
Watch dog and Instant recovery maximizes up-time
Graceful shutdown, all requests in process will be completed.
Runs completely in the user space, OS reliability is not affected
CGI, Fast CGI and servlet engine run in standalone processes,the reliability of the web server is not affected by third party software.