// Glossary · LSWS

LiteSpeed Web Server

LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance, Apache-compatible web server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. It serves dynamic PHP sites — especially WordPress — typically 3–9× faster than Apache by combining an event-driven architecture with built-in LSCache page caching.

LiteSpeed reads the same .htaccess and mod_rewrite rules Apache uses, so existing sites can switch with no code changes. The Enterprise edition adds ESI block caching, smart purging, and the official LSCache plugin for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Joomla and Drupal.

Namence runs LiteSpeed Enterprise on every shared, WordPress, cloud and reseller plan. Combined with NVMe SSD storage and HTTP/3 over QUIC, this is what gives a typical Nepali WordPress site a sub-200 ms TTFB from inside Nepal.