LiteSpeed Blog: Category General

Azureus/Zudeo and LiteSpeed

Xing Li — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:42:00 -0800

A new and soon to be released product from LiteSpeed is part of the networking/application foundation for Zudeo. Azureus, the maker of the popular p2p file sharing client has officially lunched their attack on YouTube with Zudeo.

Check out the announcement coverage here:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/03/azureus-launches-zudeo/

On behalf of everyone at LiteSpeed, we wish the best for Zudeo.

If you are curious at what new LiteSpeed product Zudeo is using, please stay tuned. What we can say right now is that LiteSpeed is not just a web "server" company a full web "platform" company. Our new product will address the scalable needs for all web 2.0 startups at a decisive price-point that will turn heads.

LiteSpeed Web Server 3.0 Beta

Xing Li — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:35:00 -0800

In tune to our mantra of releasing often and releasing early, here at LiteSpeed we are happy to announce the public beta of our Web Server 3.0 product.

With 3.0 comes major improvements:

Request Filtering: compatible with SecFilterSelective directives of mod_security. Our enterprise users have requested this feature and as always, we listen to our customers. You can filtering incoming request data and even inspect the full request body. Security is the heart of any serious web-facing deployment and LiteSpeed is here to cater to the most demanding users.

IP to GeoLocation support: full support of all MaxMind's free/commercial GeoIP database products. If you are running an ad server, this feature is indispensable. Select "memory cache" within settings and LiteSpeed will cache IP to Geo lookups to maximize performance and several magnitudes faster than if you have to do it dynamically via an script such as PHP/Ruby.

Revamped Web GUI/Console: we decided it was time to refresh our web administrative interface to improve both Ease Of Use, and performance which now supports up to over 1000+ virtual hosts on a single instance. This is only the foundation of what is to come. Our goal is to have the perfect blend of Ease of Use and Technology. Too many hours are wasted on inefficient interfaces.

64bit support: self-explanatory. LiteSpeed is already extremely memory efficient so going to 64bit has little to do with memory usage but to future proof our product. Within the next 6 months, main-stream 32bit server level CPUs will no longer exist in the market. We will obviously continue our 32bit product line for the millions of 32bit server users out there.

We have also enabled sendfile() support for Standard Edition users.

Test drive 3.0 today and send us your feedbacks!

More info/download: LiteSpeed Web Server 3.0beta

Power outage trumps holiday

Xing Li — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:40:00 -0700

LiteSpeed's colocation provider lost power for 5 hours very early Thursday morning: hosed electrical feed to the UPS.

In direct response, we relocated our servers to another facility in the same building. The new data-center room has redundant UPS and Power plus twice the cooling capacity as the previous one.

The relocation didn't come without cost. LiteSpeed's site was down for much of late Sunday to late afternoon of Labor Day Monday. We figured anyone who really wanted to visit our site on Labor Day weekend was probably just lost and was a good time to make the move with least impact to our customers.

In summary: Electricity 1, LiteSpeed 0.

Trac SCM how-to and upgraded Live Demos

Xing Li — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:52:00 -0700

Trac SCM/Project Management software is one of the most popular Python-based application available today. Many open-source projects are hosting their developement source, bug tracker, and wiki all using a single Trac install. It goes to show how much feature has been crammed into Trac and how well integrated it is with its sub-features.

Frankly, it's pretty amazing to see how many Trac users there are currently. A year ago, I saw a few Trac installations. Today, it would be strange not to see a Trac install for every 5 software project I come accross.

I just posted a new Trac SCM + FastCGI + LiteSpeed how-to for all the Trac lovers out there and to also illustrate how easy it is to integrate any FastCGI application with LiteSpeed. Trac SCM has been added to our live demos.

Lastly, I have also updated many of the configuration for our LiteSpeed Live Demos. The configurations have been simplified/streamlined, when applicable, so new users get a sense of the shortest-way possible of integrating their their apps with LiteSpeed web server.

Intro blog....

Xing Li — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:09:00 -0700

We here at LiteSpeed feels like it's about time for a company blog where we can muse about internal/external affairs and add give us another way to reach out to our growing community.

The blog is hosted on Typo, one of the most rounded Ruby on Rails application. Though php-based WordPress is a favorite of ours and we have a great relationship with them, we really wanted a Rails platform for this blog.

Just a few days ago we released a very important 2.2 release of our core product, the LiteSpeed Web Server. Quite a bit of work was put into the 2.2 release by everyone on the team and especially George, the company founder and lead developer.

With LiteSpeed Web Server 2.2, Ruby on Rails has never been easier. It's just a matter of a few clicks within our web admin gui to setup your first full-production ready Rails app.

Easy Rails Wiki How-To