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Future and development of Enhance - discussion

Adam

With all of these solutions, the key to performance is cache control. LiteSpeed/OpenLiteSpeed can handle incredible traffic volumes when serving from cache but once you hit the PHP application and talk to the database that will consume CPU and memory as a multiple of the number of concurrent requests you are handling.

One upcoming feature in Enhance (not yet roadmapped) is the ability to modify the default web server ports from 443/80 to a custom port. This would enable you to use Nginx or another caching proxy in front of Apache (or even LiteSpeed/OpenLiteSpeed).

We are also adding support for Nginx as the primary web server.

In time we may also be able to develop caching solutions for Apache which can be configured and controlled directly from the panel.

Ned

necrom We use nginx extensively for all of those things and <3 it, but for application hosting the lack of .htaccess support is major negative for some customers (so much that we lost customers as result) so we came full circle back to Apache for all but the most performance/scaling sensitive. How do you handle .htaccess support

DirectAdmin provides a handful of htaccess rule converters and has a great one for WordPress and FastCGI, This is how we have handled it so far, Comes with pretty much everything you need outside of custom scripts.

Depending on what you need there's also rewriters available for Apache -> NGINX (an idea for you @Adam to include a tool for this on servers with NGINX)

Curious if you'd be hosting anything that couldn't be solved with the rewriter and what edge cases you might have, We're 90% WordPress and the others usually CodeIgniter/Laravel

Adam We are also adding support for Nginx as the primary web server.

Is the March roadmap still looking likley? Keen for this 😃

AdamM

If someone cares about "free" performance, I think OpenLiteSpeed is the best option.
I made a simple benchmark for a clean wordpress site with OpenLiteSpeed and litespeed cache plugin 2 days ago.
The result for me was satisfactory. OpenLiteSpeed handled 502k requests per minute, only for 4 cpu and 2 workers.
But OpenLiteSpeed has just a few downsides. Such as no htaccess auto reload. This can be a problem if you have many clients on the server.
@Adam mentioned that they are working on an auto-reload function so it will be a very good feature.

Ned

AdamM If someone cares about "free" performance, I think OpenLiteSpeed is the best option.
I made a simple benchmark for a clean wordpress site with OpenLiteSpeed and litespeed cache plugin 2 days ago.
The result for me was satisfactory. OpenLiteSpeed handled 502k requests per minute, only for 4 cpu and 2 workers.
But OpenLiteSpeed has just a few downsides. Such as no htaccess auto reload. This can be a problem if you have many clients on the server.

Curious what this benchmark looks like when you run it on something like SlickStack or Webinoly on NGINX?

Happy to give it a go if you let me know your testing method and where the VPS was hosted to best compare

Especially with WordPress NGINX config can be made to work around htaccess as a whole

Adrien

What could be beneficial is for all Enhance LSWS users to purchase together our LiteSpeed license at a significant discount. If we were 10 companies buying 2–3 licenses a year, I'm sure the LiteSpeed team would give us a better deal.

AdamM

Ned
This was when I was still using Plesk and ARM cpu in Oracle Cloud.
the tools example loader.io or h2load

Friends, version 9.0.0 has just been released, a big update 🤩
Thank you to the Enhance team.

mike

AdamM interested to know if you dumped plesk or oracle ARM or both. are you using enhance on production websites ? how is it going so far ?

AdamM

mike
I abandoned plesk because it doesn't develop, it doesn't have any new important features, prices are constantly increasing and it's not adapted to modern solutions like clustering.
I would like to continue using the arm processor but enhance does not support it yet and many software.

Adrien

mike Are you still testing Enhance? If not recently, you should jump in again and maybe move a few client sites that are open to beta. That is what I did. I'm hosting 3 client prod sites to make sure I really test Enhance.
The newly released Enhance V9.0 works very well so far. In my opinion, Enhance is production-ready and already ahead of so many other CPs on the market. We're getting there in terms of features.
Security: I've plugged in a third-party provider, and I have VirusDie LTD as a backup.
Monitoring: I'd love to see Enhance integrate with New Relic and also send an email to the website owner when a site is down. At the moment, I use BetterUptime for uptime monitoring.
What logging feature are you referring to? What critical features are you missing to move?

mike

@AdamM i am feeling the same with plesk. but i feel enhance is still not production ready. so many critical things missing. what are you using for security, logging, monitoring etc.. i am trying to abandon plesk but its not working :o)

mike

@Adrien Yes, I am still testing enhance and updated recently to 9.0. I have 1 or 2 internal websites on enhance now just for testing. I loved enhance as its main feature is a centralized multi-server CP and that's our aim with our 13 servers ranging from Plesk for Webhosting + emails to smartermail also for emails. We need to minimize if possible ssh'ing every server and doing our stuff as this is time-consuming thus automation & GUI is key. DNS modification is also a pain. We try to use anycast for all our customers as it's more reliable.
Regarding web hosting:
*Imunify360 : this thing just works.
*Ability to customize PHP per package
*Detailed process monitoring for each server (a GUI top)
*Logs for each website (not downloadable)
*Package related to a main domain. (the new implementation is more confusing if a single customer has multiple packages.)
*I have not mentioned things that are roadmaped for the next release or after as they are probably WIP
Email Hosting ( Very Lacking )

outbound spam, Email sending logs per domain/email, queue, Roundcube plugins like change password and move to spam. We use danami warden on Plesk and its feature packed with logs, statistics, reputation checks and customizations ...
*also i did not mention things road mapped like DKIM ..

For monitoring plesk we use plesk360. a centralized monitoring with alerts. for windows we use admin center.

This is what i remember while writing this post. Getting old is bad 🙂

Intrested to know how are you doing things from your side.

Cheers !

Adrien

mike Thank you, Mike! I miss everything you've mentioned too, but I feel like this time it's coming, unlike all the CP panels I've tested in the past (no roadmap, visibility, or commitment from the team).
I would add to your list a separate server for staging sites. This will be a game-changer.

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