====== Start Shared Hosting with cPanel and LiteSpeed ======
You can start performance shared hosting with cPanel and LiteSpeed Web Server using a variety of providers. Here's how.

===== Start an Instance =====
The setup is different for each provider. Please see the appropriate link below to start an instance, and then return to this page to complete the common setup.

  * [[litespeed_wiki:cpanel:hosting_vultr|Vultr]]
  * [[litespeed_wiki:cpanel:hosting_linode|Linode]]
  * [[litespeed_wiki:cpanel:hosting_digitalocean|Digital Ocean]]

===== Install cPanel =====
**Remember**: A fully qualified domain name must contain two dots, i.e ''hostname vps.mydomain.com''.

Run the install command from the console: 
  cd /home; curl -o latest -L https://securedownloads.cpanel.net/latest; sh latest

If installation is successful, you will see a log like this:
<code>268 ( INFO): cPanel install finished in 17 minutes and 20 seconds!
1195 ( INFO): Congratulations! Your installation of cPanel & WHM 11.74 is now complete. The next step is to configure your server.</code>

You can now open your browser and go to ''<nowiki>https://your-server-ip:2087</nowiki>'' to access WHM.

Account/Password = root/ssh_password

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===== Create a WordPress Site=====
Create a user/domain at **Home > Account > Create a New Account**

Use cPAddons Site Software to install WordPress

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Log in to the user's cPanel and Click **Install** from **SOFTWARE > Site Software**, and you will see the WordPress site installed in a few seconds.

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===== Set up Let's Encrypt (Optional) =====
Run the following command from the console: 
  /scripts/install_lets_encrypt_autossl_provider

===== Install the LiteSpeed WHM Plugin =====
Run the following command from the console: 
  cd /usr/src; curl https://www.litespeedtech.com/packages/cpanel/lsws_whm_plugin_install.sh | sh

===== Install and Switch to LiteSpeed Web Server =====
You'll want to use LiteSpeed Web Server to increase performance.

==== Install Web Server====
If you search for ''LiteSpeed'', it will pop up from the **Plugins** section.

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If you don't have a LiteSpeed license and you want to try it, choose **Request a trial license**. We recommend you enable PHP suEXEC. 

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Set up your password for LiteSpeed web admin.

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====Switch to LiteSpeed ====
If both servers are running, you may see this message.:

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Simply click **Switch to LiteSpeed** to fix it .

====Disable Ruid2====
If ''mod_ruid2'' is enabled, a variety of functionality may be disrupted. This is because WHM is creating files that the web server user cannot access.

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Access **EasyApache 4 > Customize > Apache Module** and set **mod_ruid2** to ''Disabled''.

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====Install timzoneDB extension====
To improve PHP performance, please click **Resolve Now** to fix it.

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===== Enable Cache=====
Follow our instructions at [[litespeed_wiki:cpanel:whm-plugin-lscwp-management|LiteSpeed Cache For WordPress Management]] to set up caching. If [[https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache/ | LSCache ]] is successfully enabled for WordPress, you will see green on **Cache Status**.

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====== Benefits of This Setup ======
So, why would you want to start performance hosting with cPanel and LSWS?

===== High Performance =====
You can accelerate all users' websites.

Simply test using the [[ https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html | AB benchmark tool ]], Like so:
  ab -n 100000 -c 100 -k -q -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" http://litespeed.test.com/
  
**Result**: 16,213 Requests/second
<code>
Server Software:        LiteSpeed
Server Hostname:        litespeed.test.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        20791 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   6.168 seconds
Complete requests:      100000
Failed requests:        0
Keep-Alive requests:    99100
Total transferred:      2115495500 bytes
HTML transferred:       2079100000 bytes
Requests per second:    16213.20 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       6.168 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.062 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          334950.64 [Kbytes/sec] received
</code>

Note: Please do benchmark testing with ''ab'' command requests from a separate public server.  

===== More Accounts on the Same Server =====
Double the maximum capacity of your current Apache servers with LiteSpeed Web Server's streamlined event-driven architecture, capable of handling thousands of concurrent clients with minimal memory consumption and CPU usage.

===== More Secure =====
Protect your servers with already familiar ''mod_security'' rules, while also taking advantage of a host of built-in anti-DDoS features, such as bandwidth and connection throttling.