Category Archives: LiteSpeed

WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin

For more than twelve years, our hosting servers have exclusively used the performance focused LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS). One of the most powerful features of LSWS is LSCache, a caching solution built directly into the web server. Over the years, LiteSpeed has created several free plugins to assist with configuring popular scripts to use LSCache.

Currently, there are eleven of these plugins available and we wanted to quickly highlight the WordPress plugin, which is by far the most popular. It compares very favorably to the many other WP caching plugins out there.

LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) can be quickly and easily installed from within any WordPress instance. You can simply search for the “LiteSpeed Cache” plugin within your WP, then install and active it to get started. If you’re just wanting basic caching functionality that is intended to work with most WP instances, you won’t need to do anything further though they do have a very helpful Beginner’s Guide.

For those wanting to dig a little deeper, you can adjust settings to better suit your needs and even take advantage of the optimization features offered through LiteSpeed’s QUIC.cloud. To help you get started, all domains hosted on our servers receive free QUIC.cloud credits each month, allowing you to use their image / site optimization and a small amount of CDN bandwidth.

We encourage you to give LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress a try to see how it can improve your website!

Python & Ruby Selectors Now Available!

We’re excited to announce that we now support Python and Ruby applications across all of our hosting platforms! These have been popular feature requests and we’re happy to be able to announce their availability. These capabilities are made possible by CloudLinux’s Python & Ruby Selector as well as LiteSpeed’s mod_passenger support. Similar to the PHP Selector, Python and Ruby applications can be deployed directly via cPanel under the Software section as seen below.

If you select “Setup Python App”, you’ll be prompted to select your desired Python version, the app’s directory, and the app’s web address (URI). Currently, Python versions 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 are available. Continue reading →

LiteSpeed Cache & WordPress

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Our servers have been running the LiteSpeed Web Server for almost six years now and one of the lesser known but most powerful features of it is its caching. LiteSpeed cache is available on our servers although it is disabled on all domains by default. Enabling it globally just isn’t practical or wise because there is a lot of content that doesn’t need to be cached or shouldn’t ever be cached.

LiteSpeed cache can be used to cache your PHP scripts and thus speed up their load time significantly. This can be very beneficial if your site receives consistent traffic although even low traffic sites can see some benefits. The cache can be enabled and configured by means of some mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess file. Below is a common example that can be used to cache WordPress:


<IfModule LiteSpeed>
CacheEnable public /
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(HEAD|GET)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(wp-admin|wp-login.php|wp-cron.php)
RewriteRule .* - [E=Cache-Control:max-age=120]
</IfModule>

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