Case studyDecember 2013
LiteSpeed Speeds Up XenForo.
Pages load within one second on a huge forum. Customer: ForoMTB.com.
➜ ~
< 1 s
Page load
≤ 10
Peak load (from 30+)
18M
Forum posts
The challenge
Where They Started
- One very large XenForo forum
- 1,500+ users online at any time, 3,000+ at peak
- Apache behind an nginx reverse proxy
- Load above 30 at peak, pages taking up to 30 s
The solution
- LiteSpeed Web Server 2-CPU license
- Installed in minutes with the Plesk extension
- MySQL optimisation
- Load 10 or below on 32 cores; pages under 1 s
The story
What Happened
ForoMTB, Spain's most popular mountain-biking forum, holds 18 million posts and 280,000 users. At peak times Apache plus nginx pushed load past 30 and pages took up to 30 seconds.
After switching to LiteSpeed and tuning MySQL, load stayed at 10 or below and pages loaded within a second. A brief test back on Apache + nginx sent load straight back to 30 — so they stayed with LiteSpeed.
Server environment: 2× AMD Opteron 6272 (32 cores), 64 GB RAM, 2× 1 TB RAID 1.
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