Feature request: OpenLiteSpeed Support as webserver in addition to nginx/apache

[josefglatz]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

No, but supporting a fast webserver could be a real benefit.

Describe your solution

OpenLiteSpeed Web Server has some real benefits over Apache by supporting Apache related things and supporting anti-DDoS things...

https://github.com/litespeedtech/openlitespeed

Additional context

Related:

• Feature request: Caddy webserver support #4312

[stasadev]

The product has a slightly different name, I modified the issue.

[rfay]

Most people have left Apache behind long ago. But there are other requests for alternate webservers in the issue queue, especially

• Feature request: FrankenPHP Support #5655

Eventually we'll probably make a pluggable setup for this, but it's not likely to come any time soon.

However, you could easily replace Apache with OpenLiteSpeed using a .ddev/web-build/Dockerfile

[prometheus76]

+1 Vote - we use on our production systems Litespeed HTTP Server. We would like to have OpenLiteSpeed on our local ddev environment too.

[andy-blum]

Backdrop reports 13% of their reporting sites using LiteSpeed

https://backdropcms.org/project/backdrop/telemetry

[rfay]

Thanks @andy-blum - great to see you! Do you have any insight into why that would be? I'm pretty sure that's not a general trend, but don't know.

[andy-blum]

@quicksketch ☝️

[quicksketch]

Backdrop's ~13% usage seems to be inline with global usage from https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server

LiteSpeed has been around forever but seems to have quietly snuck up into becoming the 3rd most popular web server (excluding CloudFlare).

[rfay]

Thanks @quicksketch !

[rfay]

Can't believe that IIS comes in 4th! Craziness!