| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | New Jersey, USA |
| Products | Web servers |
| Website | www.litespeedtech.com |
LiteSpeed Technologies Inc. is based in New Jersey, USA. It is an information technology company that produces web server software designed specifically for large web sites, such as those of Internet service providers and corporate data centers.
LiteSpeed Technologies Inc. was founded in 2002 by George Wang.[1]
LiteSpeed Web Server is the company's core product, a lightweight proprietary web server, which is able to read Apache configuration directly and used together with web hosting control panels by replacing Apache. Last stable release was 4.1.8 which was released in November 2011[2]. According to a Netcraft May 2006 web server survey, LiteSpeed powered over 254,000 domains and was the 6th most popular web server platform in the world.[3] By August 2007 it had fallen to the 19th position, with its customer base falling below 150,000;[4] however, it rebounded to the 11th position as of January 2008, with its customer base raising above 430,000,[5] only to drop to 26th by January 2009 with a base below 90,000.[6]
LiteSpeed Web Server is available for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD.
This company also provides a product called "LiteSpeed LoadBalancer".[7]