cpanel + litespeed = easy

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normally we use litespeed in complicated crazy high load environments. but I happened to be doing a plain old simple cpanel install and decided to use litespeed there also because we use suphp.
im used to installing litespeed and configuring it myself so I was prepared to go through the setup, change all the options i like, install dependencies, prepare and compile php myself/etc.
but instead I followed instructions for the cpanel plugin. 10 seconds later litespeed is installed. one click + 5minutes later php is compiled and installed. next click its swapped from apache to litespeed.... and im done. I was impressed how easy it was.

because its so easy to swap back I did some quick apache bench tests.
I did not touch the server config at all, just wanted a quick baseline comparison with nothing special or magical done.
tests were done from another server 0.6ms away on a 10mbit internet connection. suphp is enabled. I did several tests but included only one result here, the results were similar no matter what test i tried.

test.php:
<? print "hello"; ?>

apache:
ab -c 20 -t 120 -n 200000 http://.../test.php
Requests per second: 406.75 [#/sec] (mean)
observed load average: 1.61

litespeed:
ab -c 20 -t 120 -n 200000 http://.../test.php
Requests per second: 1977.87 [#/sec] (mean)
observed load average: 0.28

1/5th the load, 5x more requests per second.
is a nice result to see.


browsing to the forum and writing this post took more time than all of the above combined