With all of our customers now migrated to new servers we would like to showcase one of the underlying technologies of our next generation hosting platform that gives an incredible performance boost to your websites.<\/p>\n
LiteSpeed is a highly efficient, commercial web server and replacement for the popular Apache web server used by most hosting companies.<\/p>\n
We selected LiteSpeed for our next generation platform as it is up to 9 times\u00a0faster than Apache when serving static content, 3\u00a0times\u00a0faster when serving secure SSL connections and up to 50% faster when serving PHP requests. It is also one of the first web servers to support the new HTTP\/2 protocol.<\/p>\n
What’s really cool about LiteSpeed is that it includes a powerful server side cache that can supercharge your website, making it load hundreds of times faster and reach many more visitors.<\/p>\n
In fact, benchmark tests show WordPress loading over 4000 times faster<\/a> on our new platform when LiteSpeed Cache is enabled!<\/p>\n Varial Hosting customers can easily speed up their WordPress sites by installing this simple plugin<\/a>\u00a0or by purchasing one of our optimized WordPress hosting plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With all of our customers now migrated to new servers we would like to showcase one of the underlying technologies of our next generation hosting platform that gives an incredible performance boost to your websites. 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