Litespeed / Apache / nginx /Zend server

[Danielx64]

Ok,

I been trying to decide if I should go with litespeed or zend server for my next project.

Would you use zend server or litespeed?

Danielx64 Reviewed by Danielx64 on 10th Jul 2011. Litespeed / Apache / nginx /Zend server Ok, I been trying to decide if I should go with litespeed or zend server for my next project. Would you use zend server or litespeed? Rating: 5

[fogpuppy]

The answer to that would depend a lot on exactly what you are looking for. I'm not a lightspeed expert so I may be getting this a bit wrong but basically you're looking at a comparison of a fast web server SAPI vs. a full PHP application server that includes Apache/mod_php plus application monitoring, code tracing, various caching capabilities, transparent clustering, etc.

So if you don't see a lot of value in what Zend Server brings to the equation then it's sort of a "push".

Disclaimer, I do work for Zend but I'm trying to be objective.

[Danielx64]

The answer to that would depend a lot on exactly what you are looking for. I'm not a lightspeed expert so I may be getting this a bit wrong but basically you're looking at a comparison of a fast web server SAPI vs. a full PHP application server that includes Apache/mod_php plus application monitoring, code tracing, various caching capabilities, transparent clustering, etc.

So if you don't see a lot of value in what Zend Server brings to the equation then it's sort of a "push".

Disclaimer, I do work for Zend but I'm trying to be objective.

Yea all I really want is the Zend Optimizer+ addon so that my website will run faster, but I may be out of luck (There no standalone version)

[l0calh0st]

None of them

[okone]

I'd say neither. I don't think there is anything more you could do with either of them that could not be accomplished using nginx. If your project is php based, as far as I know, they both proxy out to a php interprtor (like fpm) in a similar way to nginx anyway. And to put the icing on the cake, nginx has an awesome support forum that is all completely free.

[Danielx64]

How easy is it to convert my complex .htaccess file to nginx? Also does nginx have DDOS protection like litespeed?

[okone]

That depends on what you want to run on it.

If you're using a script or cms that has a front controller (e.g. wordpress, joomla, drupal, codeignitor etc) then rewrite rules are pretty straightforward if you use try_files.

Other than that, it might be quite complicated, but only because it may take a while to familiarise yourself with nginx's rules.

With regards to DDOS protection, I have no idea, but my first guess is no. That being said you can, like all popular webservers, block multiple ip ranges. So if you do ever experience a DDOS attack, it can be prevented if you know what you're doing.

[Danielx64]

Yes, I'm running wordpress, phpbb and pwiki.

Right now I got this little bit in my htaccess file that check to see if I have entered a url that is known to me, if the correct url is entered, it will set a cookie and redirect me to wp-login.php and let me log into wordpress.

So if you go to danielx64.com/wp-login.php, it should not show the login page since you didn't put the correct url in.

So right now it between nginx and litespeed