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Does Litespeed cache plugin really outperform all other cache plugins (on a hosting which is using litespeed server) – Is this true? And is it recommended to invest on WP rocket for a website which is hosted on litespeed server
I really appreciate any insights on this…
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Are you building an e-commerce site or a simple website? Outperformance largely depends on hosting as well.
Even if your hosting provider offers an average latency of 100ms on Ryzen and lower on Epyc and Intel, caching can only help so much.
The performance of caching also varies depending on whether you use heavy or lightweight plugins and the amount of JavaScript on your site. You could try the premium caching solution, FlyingPress, but keep in mind that they cannot guarantee it will work perfectly for every setup.
For the benchmark with wrk tool, I can get an average 25ms for a simple page that retrieve data from database. This is done without plugins but using reverse proxy caching.
And you would have to test every single page because of Google PSI INP metric.
Most likely yes, but it is complex to tune. You need a lot of skill. FlyingPress will be more simple. So if you have a wizard to tune LS do that, if by yourself perhaps FP.
Either way, the differences will be so minor it will not really matter to anyone or anything unless you are Wal-Mart shaving milliseconds off to help conversions.
LiteSpeed servers aren’t as robust in my experience as Nginx and need restarting / tinkering with more often. I personally still feel that Nginx + WP Rocket are the best balance between stability and speed.
Last time I tested this was years ago so take it with a grain of salt:
LiteSpeed cache plugin outperformed every other plugin except the WP Rocket – but the difference between the WP Rocket and LiteSpeed was very small, so I never considered paying for the WP Rocket.
Relja
I have an Ubuntu 22.04 LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server with Redis Object Cache. I only host WordPress sites and all my sites are extremely fast and can easily handle a Reddit Hug.
LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server does need tweaking along with tweaking MariaDB for performance.
I used to use cPanel with Engintron NGINX and the performance was great.
NGINX does need an expert system admin to squeeze out performance.
A properly configured NGINX server is extremely fast and does well as a streaming server.
Personally, WordPress works better and faster on a LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server since I have sites that get millions of page views.
Under heavy load LiteSpeed performs better.
I think between LiteSpeed and NGINX it comes down to preference and what you are trying to accomplish.
Caching also comes down to proper configurations, settings and technology stack. I use Redis for object caching which is currently the fastest way to cache database calls.
Anyway, it boils down to preference and if you know what you are doing.