RunCloud, I couldn’t enable FastCGI caching after trying configurations for 30 minutes so too bad, I will assume most users won’t be able to either and I tested it without FCGI. GridPane only allowed REDIS object caching for the cheap plan so that’s what I tested. NGINX, I compared with FastCGI caching on and off. Caching configurations compared – OLS, I tested with LS cache on and off.Whatever they came out of the box with is what they get. I used out of the box configurations without trying to tweak or tune anything to their best settings. RunCloud had a months-older PHP 7.3.4 (instead of latest PHP 7.3.8). Stack configurations – all running the latest version of PHP 7.3, mariaDB, blah blah blah.Sure, I could have figured it out but with the time I spent I can assure you most newbies won’t have been able to. Datacenter – all were using Linode except for SpinupWP (using Digital Ocean) because setup was clunky with any provider other than DO.Stacks compared – OLS running off CyberPanel vs 3 variants of NGINX (RunCloud, GridPane, SpinupWP).I also made benchmark charts and what not. I’m no expert but did my best to provide what I thought was fair testing. I pit them side-by-side in the most unbiased controlled testing environment possible. I didn’t care about all the micro-improvements made to get there. I wanted to know what their real-world performance was. Signed up for different NGINX stacks and compared them against OLS. I put together testing servers and everything. I really intended for this guide to be comprehensive. Read on and find out… Which one is faster? (OpenLiteSpeed or NGINX?)

What’s the history behind LiteSpeed and NGINX? Which one is faster? Which one handles more traffic? Which one is better for you?! A quick showdown between LiteSpeed and NGINX…two of the greatest high-performance web servers.

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