🆚 LiteSpeed Web Server vs. Nginx
- 📈 Nginx is three times more popular than LiteSpeed Web Server.
- 🌎 Nginx is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 LiteSpeed Web Server is more popular in Australia, India, and Poland.
LiteSpeed Web Server
NginxType
About
LiteSpeed Web Server is a high-performance commercial web server that can operate as a drop-in replacement for 
Apache, using the same configuration files and control panel integrations.
It uses an event-driven architecture to handle thousands of concurrent connections with low resource usage, supports 
HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and 
QUIC, includes built-in server-level caching through 
LSCache, and provides security features such as anti-DDoS protection and ModSecurity compatibility.
Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage.
It supports serving static files, reverse proxying, load balancing for HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, 
WebSocket proxying, response compression, and zero-downtime configuration reloads.
Headquarters
Pricing
(1 domain, up to 2GB RAM) Free ✔️
(5 domains, up to 8GB RAM) $10/month
(5 domains, unlimited RAM) $16/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,578,217 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.