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To understand what this issue is about, simply run the code below. This code increases the memory by 1 MB with each run, but the script is terminated prematurely and before the max_memory_limit is reached because it is supposedly exceeded. Observed under LSWS/OLS and PHP 8.1. <?php...

How to block unwanted traffic easily but effectively and without WAF or CloudFlare. I have been working on the topic of how to block unwanted traffic, i.e. bad bots etc., for several years when PHP is not available due to LScache. The same applies if a Wep Application Firewall or CloudFlare is...

Although ESI is not supported by OLS, the following description may encourage you to use LiteSpeed Enterprise instead of OLS. OLS and LSWS are similar if not identical in many ways. In terms of performance, there are certainly few disadvantages to OLS. This also applies if you use a CMS where...

How to warm up the cache of URLs that are not in the sitemap. If you use one of the LiteSpeed Cache Plugins for WordPress, OpenCart, PrestaShop or another LiteSpeed Cache Plugin, then you are certainly familiar with the problem that the included cache crawlers can only warm up the cache of the...

The Magento shop system has been established as a shopping CMS for many years and is very popular. Unfortunately, there has been a handicap in terms of performance since day one. This handicap already existed in Magento 1 and has become even worse with Magento 2. Therefore, regardless of the...

Do you know avif? avif stands for AV1 Image File Format, is a modern, open-source image compression format. The AVIF format is based on the AV1 video codec, which was developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) to provide efficient and high-quality video compression. The AVIF format...

Did you know? Optimizing a website does not improve loading time! Are you one of the many millions of users who believe that optimizing a website could improve the loading time? Unfortunately, this is a misconception and who is to blame? It's Google, or Google PageSpeed, because PageSpeed...

After countless requests to LiteSpeed when the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for Wordpress is finally avif ready, the first plugin for LiteSpeed LScache is the solution. The name AWR stands for avif and webp replacement including Image Optimization especially made for the LSCache Plugin for Wordpress...

It's primarily about Wordpress or the LScache Plugin (LSCWP) for Wordpress, but the problem affects every LiteSpeed Cache Plugin for which a Cache Warmup Crawler is available. In order to benefit from LScache, it is imperative that the cache is warmed up. If you don't do that or maybe don't...

If statistics are to be believed, there is currently only 1 web server that has shown significant growth rates for more than 10 years. All others seem to have been weakening for quite some time. Where does that come from?

Ever since Google Pagespeed, there has been a misconception that Google doesn't really want to create despite sufficient criticism. But before I demonize Google, I want to first praise Google. Praise for the fact that Google has been the only authority for almost 20 years now, which is committed...

The following explanations should help to answer the basic question of what advantages and disadvantages there are by using a CDN and whether there are alternatives. Basically, a CDN follows the principle: "Bring content closer to the user". Leaving everything else aside, everyone should be...

A few days ago there was an intense discussion in LiteSpeed Slack about why you can only enter 1 sitemap for the crawler in the cache plugin for WordPress. If you have a plugin installed, such as YOAST or Rank Math, the question does not arise because these plugins automatically create an index...

In case you are thinking of switching from OLS to LSWS at some point, I want to point out one of the many differences between the OpenLiteSpeed and LiteSpeed Enterprise web servers. The LSWS offers the possibility to cache POST requests. The OLS cannot do that. While POST is typically only used...

The big LScache fail report for LiteSpeed LSCWP and all other LiteSpeed cache plugins https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/forum/threads/the-big-lscache-fail-report-for-litespeed-lscwp-and-all-other-litespeed-cache-plugins.21053/

This topic is about and for everyone who is using LiteSpeed LScache. These users know, that it is important to always keep cache warmuped, but the problem is that all build-in crawlers from LiteSpeed to warmup the cache are not only sloww. They takea a long time until all URLs are crawled and...