Stretch Your Hardware Budget With LiteSpeed

Times are tough for hosting providers. Hardware costs are climbing. Between tariffs, supply chain disruptions, and rising component costs, your margins are being squeezed from every angle.

Your clients’ needs are outpacing your existing hardware, but purchasing additional servers is becoming cost-prohibitive.

Enter LiteSpeed. With LiteSpeed Web Server, you can host more customers on the hardware you already own.

Hardware Costs Are Not Coming Down

In recent months:

• Server component prices have risen significantly, and these price hikes are beginning to be felt in server and infrastructure costs.
• Tariff uncertainty is adding volatility to purchasing decisions and making long-term procurement planning more difficult.
• Colocation and power costs are increasing.

Hosting providers are caught between raising prices and losing customers.

But there is a third option: LiteSpeed Web Server.

Concrete Ways LiteSpeed Saves Money

LiteSpeed can often handle more traffic than Apache without requiring a hardware upgrade.

LiteSpeed’s event-driven architecture can process thousands of concurrent connections with a fraction of the memory that traditional Apache deployments would require. That higher concurrency means you can serve more customers per machine.

LSCache is LiteSpeed’s built-in full-page caching solution. By serving cached pages, LSCache reduces repeated PHP execution and unnecessary database queries, lowering CPU load. It also eliminates the need for a separate Varnish layer, keeping your stack efficient and compact.

LiteSpeed Web Server was the first production server to support HTTP/3 and QUIC. In fact, LiteSpeed helped write the specification as an active participant in the IETF working group. Built-in HTTP/3 support can reduce the need for extra layers in deployments that might otherwise rely on additional proxy infrastructure.

LiteSpeed supports ModSecurity rules asynchronously for robust application-layer protection with lower overhead.

Apache users can switch to LiteSpeed Web Server with minimal disruption, and typically without downtime. LiteSpeed is a drop-in replacement for Apache and supports Apache configuration and .htaccess files.

LiteSpeed can significantly increase the amount of traffic each server can handle, allowing you to:

• delay your next hardware purchase
• extend the useful life of your existing hardware
• reduce the number of nodes in a cluster

If you can serve the same workload with fewer servers, power consumption drops and energy costs become easier to control, especially at scale.

Why Now?

The ROI window is now.

• There is little sign of near-term relief in infrastructure costs
• Every month you delay efficiency improvements is another month of unnecessary hardware and operating costs
• The cost of a LiteSpeed license is typically a fraction of the cost of new hardware

Audit your current server utilization and then sign up for a LiteSpeed trial to experience the difference for yourself!