litespeed disambiguation . litespeed technologies inc. type private industry technology founded 2002 headquarters new jersey usa products web servers website www.litespeedtech.com litespeed technologies inc. is an information technology company based in new jersey usa that produces web server software designed specifically for high traffic servers such as those of internet service providers and corporate data centers . litespeed technologies inc. was founded in 2002 by george wang . 1 contents 1 products 1.1 litespeed web server 1.1.1 usage statistics 1.2 openlitespeed 1.3 other products 2 supported web control panels 3 see also 4 references 5 external links products edit litespeed web server edit litespeed web server is the company s core product a lightweight proprietary web server which is able to read apache configurations directly . the software is commonly used together with web hosting control panels where it replaces apache as the web server . 2 it is available for linux os x solaris and freebsd . the last stable release was 5.0 which was released in april 2015 . 3 the litespeed web server supports both spdy 3.1 and the new http 2 network protocols . 4 usage statistics edit may 2006 litespeed powered over 254 000 domains and was the 6th most popular web server platform in the world according to a netcraft web server survey . 5 august 2007 litespeed had fallen below 150 000 to 19th position . 6 january 2008 it rebounded to the 11th position with its customer base raising above 430 000 . 7 january 2009 it dropped to 26th with a base below 90 000 . 8 may 2013 it is used by 2 % of all websites according to w3techs 9 making it the 4th most popular web server . this was up from 1.5 % in may 2012 10 and 1.1 % in april 2011 . 11 openlitespeed edit openlitespeed is an open source version of litespeed web server . it is licensed under the gnu general public license version 3 . openlitespeed versions 1.3.7 and 1.4.4 support http 2 draft 16 nov. 2014 june 2015 . 12 other products edit this company also produces a load balancing product called litespeed loadbalancer . supported web control panels edit hosting controller see also edit comparison of web server software comparison of lightweight web servers references edit litespeed growing slowly but surely by speeding web hosting performance litespeed growing slowly but surely by speeding web hosting performance litespeed web server release log . retrieved 2015 06 08 . litespeed web server the world s first web server to offer http 2 support . retrieved 8 june 2015 . may 2006 web server survey . netcraft . archived from the original on 30 september 2007 . august 2007 web server survey . netcraft . archived from the original on 14 november 2007 . january 2008 web server survey . netcraft . archived from the original on 7 january 2008 . january 2009 web server survey . netcraft . archived from the original on 21 january 2009 . usage statistics and market share of litespeed for websites . w3techs . 29 may 2013 . dead link usage statistics and market share of litespeed for websites . w3techs . 8 may 2012 . dead link usage statistics and market share of litespeed for websites . w3techs . 26 april 2011 . dead link openlitespeed 1.4.4 change log . retrieved 26 january 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title litespeed technologies inc. & oldid 738281469 categories companies established in 20022002 establishments in new jerseyfree web server softwarehidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from september 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 september 2016 at 00 50 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view