Case studyFebruary 2014
LiteSpeed Revitalizes Overloaded Servers.
Load spikes eliminated on a high-traffic WordPress site. Customer: WiredTree / eTeknix.com.
➜ ~
~4×
Faster pages
238→67 ms
Average load time
< 1
Load (from 50+)
The challenge
Where They Started
- One high-traffic WordPress site
- Load spikes above 50 on Apache
- Unbearable page load times and occasional crashes
The solution
- LiteSpeed Web Server 2-CPU license
- Installed in minutes with the WHM plugin
- Load below 1, with no more spikes
The story
What Happened
Managed host WiredTree recommends LiteSpeed before suggesting hardware upgrades. When tech site eTeknix.com moved to them, its Apache 2.2 setup coped with normal traffic but surged to a load of 50 during spikes.
Because WiredTree installs the LiteSpeed WHM plugin on all its servers, the switch took minutes. Load came down and stayed down, and average page load time improved almost 4× — from 238 ms to 67 ms — with consistent speed during surges.
Server environment: Xeon E3-1230V2 (4 cores), 2× 240 GB SSD RAID 1, 16 GB ECC RAM.
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