Over the last 24 hours we’ve been migrating our shared hosting servers to utilize Litespeed instead of Apache. For those of you not familiar with Litespeed, it’s essentially an Apache replacement that can (in certain situations) provide significant performance improvements.  If you’re interested in reading more about Litespeed, please feel free to take a look at their website: www.litespeedtech.com

What does this mean for you? Whilst you may not see any immediate performance improvements (and if you do, by all means please let us know), it should mean that during periods of higher activity, such as sites being Digg, StumbleUpon’ed, Reddit frontpaged, etc, the servers should cope generally better than they would on Apache. Overall, it allows our servers to handle higher numbers of requests more efficiently than Apache otherwise would.

This doesn’t mean that we’re going to cram our servers with many more websites to compensate for the change; so please don’t worry about that. The purpose behind the move to Litespeed is to try and ensure that sites which are peaking in popularity are handled sufficiently better, and faster. This should ultimately mean less concern for those expecting higher peaks of traffic to their websites.

If you notice any problems with the change (and we didn’t during testing), please get in touch with us and we’ll investigate and try to fix them for you. If you have any other comments, questions or concerns about this change, please let us know.