litespeed web proxies

[kc8yds]

I run many web proxies designed to help people with censored internet access -- a list of them can be found on https://camolist.com (this page is on a apache vps but ALL links on it go to sites hosted with litespeed--my vps does not get much traffic but if ever needed it i'll get litespeed vps)

my servers are setup like this: Q6600 (quad core) / centos (no software but ssh/yum and whatever the os installs on its own) / 4 gb of ram -- litespeed 2 cpu license -- php 5.2.10 (and now 5.3) with apc

before switching to litespeed i was lucky if the server could reach 40 mbit/sec of traffic without apache maxing out the ram and the server becoming unresponsive (which made me reboot it during peak traffic -- i'm sure that turned many people away from the sites)

at the time i had 2 of these servers each would max out around 40 mbit/sec -- after reading on steadfasts blog about litespeed i decided to give it a try and never went back

the servers now reach their shared bandwidth limit way before litespeed even thinks about getting overloaded (hosted at fdc with a 100 mbit shared link -- i've gotten 90 through it and litespeed didnt think twice) -- i've thought about downgrading from the quad core cpu to a dual core but the price difference is only 30$ a month and it might push the dual a bit to hard so i've just kept the quad core servers

also recently i took advantage of the standard license and setup multiple single core servers to handle nothing but video -- 150 max connections streaming youtube > server (litespeed) > usage turns out to around 60 mbit /sec which litespeed standard on a 1 cpu server with 1 gb of ram doesnt hesitate one bit

so at first i was able to basically double what a $189 / month server was able to do for $38/month

then i was able to take a TON of bandwidth use off the more expensive 189(server)+38(litespeed) server by getting multiple single core servers and using the standard license on them



so this is to anyone who thinks spending money on software is not worth it... at least give it a try because you might be surprised by how much you can save on server cost by paying for a software license