Is Litespeed Beneficial?

I was going to try out Litespeed, especially since I have noticed freezing on site from time to time. Everything works while the website is stuck frozen for a good few minutes, can access WHM, CPANEL, and the file manager. Logs show absolutely no errors at those times. Usually when people are uploading content, is when I notice it happening (images, etc.). We are not even big yet, around 45 people and some of those profiles being my own. Back end runs beautiful, but site side those random moments and nothing in the error logs. Next step is to mess with MySQL (Keep in mind it has been doing this day one and multiple installs with no resolution, basically gave up XD, and now trying again), but I also wanted the same speed and uploading I seen with my last shared host. My site ran better and faster on shared hosting with litespeed then on my dedicated server right now without it. What are some experiences others have had with litespeed? Would you recommend it? Is the below plan good enough for starting out? Litespeed also is already included and installed in php modules so I should be able to get started without any issue right? Off the Lightspeed topic I am also running Raid as a way to protect data loss and to share the space between multiple drives. Could this be causing me more issues? 

So I Decided to do the Litespeed thing and there are already noticeable differences. Images that would take forever to load, are loading good and faster even after clearing cache. Before I could wait and see img not loading snippets for about a good 5 minutes. Litespeed seems to improve not only the page loading, but content as well. I would recommend this and also the change to Innodb. I would say it made about a 30% difference doing both of these and did not take to long to do if you have access to fully to your server. I may want to try the MariaDB and Aria stuff later, but for now I am happy with the choice I made in this regard.

Litespeed package:

Site Owner:
Up To 5 Domains
1 Worker
8GB RAM $9/month

Just figured our that 8GB RAM limit is 8 GB so with me having 32 I would need the unlimited I gather? I did ofcourse have to do the unlimited being I have 16 cores. So 15 bucks a month, but less hassle I will take it.

My Server Specs: 

ProcessorDual E5-2670 (16 cores/32 Threads, 2.6Ghz)$0.00
Main Hard Drive4TB SATA Hard Drive$0.00
2nd Hard Drive4TB SATA Drive$10.00
3rd Hard Drive4TB SATA Drive$10.00
4th Hard DriveNone$0.00
5th Hard DriveNone$0.00
6th Hard DriveNone$0.00
7th Hard DriveNone$0.00
8th Hard DriveNone$0.00
9th Hard DriveNone$0.00
10th Hard DriveNone$0.00
11th Hard DriveNone$0.00
12th Hard DriveNone$0.00
RAM32GB RAM$0.00
IPv4/29 IPs (5 Usable IPs)$0.00
Operating SystemCentOS 7 64-bit$0.00
Bandwidth10Gbit Port: 100TB Transfer$0.00
Raid cardRAID 5 (minimum 3 drives)$0.00
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    • Hi Kyle;
      I tried it works perfect.
      But your problem is not from the web server it is the limited shared CPU resources.
      There is a discussion about page speed that we did before:
      https://una.io/page/view-discussion?id=3097

      • Fine tuning of software is necessary if you have more than average users online. Cem already sent link to post with some example of server configuration which should work better than default settings at least for most servers.

        Regarding your hardware - I think it's better to have SSD disks, if you are going to use a lot of space you can use Amazon S3 to storage site data, then your site storage will be needed mostly for the database.

        Then you can convert your database from MyISAM to InnoDB - https://una.io/cmts.php?sys=bx_forum&id=3139&cmt_id=13128 

        • Was going to use remote storage but I like to be in control of the content on my site. With privacy being an ever growing concern I just rather keep full control of all content in and out. Would converting the database still be beneficial? May be something I give a try when I have some time, so thanks for pointing it out.

          • So I Decided to do the Litespeed thing and there are already noticable differences. Images that would take forever to load, are loading good even after clearing cache. Before I could wait and see img not loading snippets for about a good 5 minutes. Litespeed seems to improve not only the page loading, but content as well. I would recommend this and also the change to Innodb. I would say it made about a 30% difference doing both of these and did not take to long to do if you have access to fully to your server.

            • Interesting

              • I may take back my INNODB comment until I fix my issue. I seem to have did something, hopefully just a small edit.

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