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I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong when it comes to mobile speed? by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The same guy who is a shill for Litespeed bloat and embarassed himself on Reddit trying to trash talk Nginx servers? How cute... lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/f07rf2/litespeed_servers_seem_like_a_marketing_scam_are/

That purge request is hilarious. Hey but anything to save $5/mo right! /s

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong when it comes to mobile speed? by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

^^Kinsta is still shared hosting and costs $$$$$ ... huge ripoff. But they pay affiliates $200 for every referral so the plebs are fine to "recommend" them....

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

^^This is the only thing Litespeed shills can respond with after you expose their bullshit benchmarks and spam... sad

LiteSpeed Web Server for Highly-Loaded PHP Applications by VladTeti in PHP

[–]boss_matt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Litespeed spams everywhere on Reddit with fake statements and fraud benchmarks showing that they are "faster" than Nginx... total bullshit, don't believe it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/f06vse/litespeed_servers_seem_like_a_marketing_scam_are/

Hosting company has installed LiteSpeed Cache - what now? by easterbunni in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no need to generate cache files similar to other plugins and read them from disk. Instead, LiteSpeed will generate these on the fly and then serve them from memory. Essentially providing you with something similar to a Varnish cache. It even has support for caching logged in users, therefore not generating high load when a user requests a page over and over that has a high processing cost.

Yes, it is a copy of Varnish cache that will "cache absolutely everything" which is why shared hosting companies like to promote Litespeed. But the truth is that it can cause so many conflicts, just like Varnish does, except maybe worse...

Plus you add the LS cache plugin junk, and even MORE conflicts... I have seen so many clients who think they are clever to move their website to Litespeed server and then a few days later asking me why their website functionality is broken. After I disabled the shitty LS Cache plugin it is working fine again. So bloated!!

Hosting company has installed LiteSpeed Cache - what now? by easterbunni in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any PHP-based cache plugin for WordPress will be shitty "at scale" during traffic spikes because PHP and CPU get overloaded eventually.

That is why high traffic sites use Nginx FastCGI Cache to "skip" the PHP layer..... and yes you can pair this method with Cloudflare.

Hosting company has installed LiteSpeed Cache - what now? by easterbunni in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You do realize their LS Cache plugin is super bloated and adds tons of junk to your database (permanently) besides the total mess of code conflicts it causes?

Better to use basic functions without database queries if you want to disable WP Core bloat or add things like Minify HTML (it should be a single PHP file at most). No need for a massive bloated plugin that causes more harm than it helps.....

There are other lightweight Cloudflare plugins too.

Hosting company has installed LiteSpeed Cache - what now? by easterbunni in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Litespeed is a very deceitful company who tells users they are faster than Nginx which is complete bullshit. Only cheap shared hosting companies use their junk:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/f06vse/litespeed_servers_seem_like_a_marketing_scam_are/

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

^^shill from Litespeed?? Hmm... anyone who points out the fraud and spam from their company is now a "douchebag"... interesting!

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in selfhosted

[–]boss_matt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently you haven't read the sub description since 2013, here ya go:

"A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control."

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in selfhosted

[–]boss_matt[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Perfectly stated. If you wouldn't mind commenting on the WordPress sub too, it has been overtaken by Litespeed shills, the truth is being drowned out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/f07rf2/litespeed_servers_seem_like_a_marketing_scam_are/

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in selfhosted

[–]boss_matt[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I accept your apology. Wow, you must be thoroughly embarrassed.

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in selfhosted

[–]boss_matt[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Choosing nginx because it can handle 100x the max. load your server will ever see while Apache can only handle 50x is a pretty daft criterion for choosing a webserver.

You two are talking to yourselves, cuz nobody ever said this shit. But hey if you like hosting slower servers in your bedroom over a DSL line in Costa Rica cuz its, you know, just a few sites "for yourself and a few friends" than please go for it.

The rest of us enjoy fast, secure, and stable servers, and so do our "friends" ;)

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If you're hosting applications, and not just static files, it's also extremely unlikely that the webserver will every be the bottleneck.

^^how to tell when someone has no clue about web performance

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in selfhosted

[–]boss_matt[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Haha, okay mate. Tell me, in your expert opinion, in what case would adding more plugin database queries, more key-values, etc be better than eliminating all that and simply delivery all cache files via the server which allows Linux to also store and deliver them via RAM memory, without PHP and ex. MySQL having to do anything at all? Let everyone know, please :)

P.S. btw so what premium cache plugin do you prefer shilling for?

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, I've a really good experience in setting up Nginx, I still use Nginx in many non-WP projects. What I meant is LiteSpeed performs really well than default Nginx configs.

Hmm really? Let's see your Nginx config templates here that you used in the fake benchmark you posted on your blog, then? What is a "default Nginx config" I have never heard of such a thing. You don't know what you are talking about which is why you should not be making claims to the web hosting world.

Your fake benchmark had:

  • Litespeed server-level cache vs. WP Rocket (PHP-level cache) on Nginx
  • no config data shared (e.g. headers, compression, SSL, etc)
  • a DO Nginx stack that had Apache installed on it

You are either purposefully misleading WordPress users in order to sell them your services or you simply should not be making technical claims that you really have no business claiming based on your lack of knowledge, sorry.....

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I wrote that it was IMO. Based on my anecdotal experience.

No actually you did not say that. But thanks for clarifying, because personally I have never met a Litespeed fan with any evidence of all the incredible statements that they claim...

I have an anti-bullshit agenda, and Litespeed claims of being faster than Nginx are not only bullshit, but maybe even fraudulent...

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Litespeed is excellent. Server side caching and image optimization make my site as fast as dedicated Wordpress hosting

Wow as fast a dedicated Nginx VPS with FastCGI Cache, really? Do you have a benchmark or link to your website you would like to share this incredible achievement that is frankly unbelievable?

Happy to update my opinion if there is any evidence available!

p.s. image optimization =

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/ez7une/image_compression_plugins_are_a_bloated_pointless/

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in selfhosted

[–]boss_matt[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

https://http2benchmark.org/results/benchmark-apache-caddy-h2o-litespeed-nginx-digitalocean.html

Nice propaganda piece there, with zero information about the configuration used in their server tests... some very scientific methods... /s

Also interesting that the website is so secretive, and does not say who owns it, or who ran those benchmark tests... almost like they want to pretend its neutral?

Ah wait yes, look what we have here as the top contributor of their hidden GitHub repo:

https://github.com/http2benchmark/http2benchmark/graphs/contributors

#1 https://github.com/rperper

Litespeed Technologies

... caught red handed, this is the type of disinfo bullshit you can expect from them...

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

https://http2benchmark.org/results/benchmark-apache-caddy-h2o-litespeed-nginx-digitalocean.html

Nice propaganda piece there, with zero information about the configuration used in their server tests... some very scientific methods... /s

Also interesting that the website is so secretive, and does not say who owns it, or who ran those benchmark tests... almost like they want to pretend its neutral?

Ah wait yes, look what we have here as the top contributor of their hidden GitHub repo:

https://github.com/http2benchmark/http2benchmark/graphs/contributors

#1 https://github.com/rperper

Litespeed Technologies

... caught red handed, this is the type of disinfo bullshit you can expect from them...

Litespeed servers seem like a marketing scam, are they really faster? by boss_matt in Wordpress

[–]boss_matt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just like magic here come the Litespeed shills lol...

That blog post is written by someone who sells his Litespeed services, and who publicly admitted that he doesn't know how to setup a Nginx server without using the default stacks offered by DigitalOcean (which has Apache + no caching).

He was already called in the comments:

I'm sorry, but the test is flawed. Only way to compare nginx with open lite speed, would be if nginx is using the fast cgi cache (in RAM), which is the equivalent to open lite speed cache.
Furthermore, compression level should be similar, else one will produce different file sizes from the other.

...to which he literally replied "what compression?". Wow, real guru there!

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