Application stack

Stay secure and up to date with the most widely-supported, enterprise-level application stack available.

What is a stack?

In web hosting, a stack is a system of software designed to run on a server and support a website. It consists of an operating system, a web server, a database, and a programming language.

The Liquid Web application stack

Cloud containers

We know that requirements change as your business grows. Our on-demand Container services layer lets you add services to your Cloud accounts, including as Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, and Varnish.

These cloud Containers live inside the Liquid Web Cloud adjacent to your existing services.

They can be deployed in seconds, are fully managed by our beyond management team, and are accessible over a secure cloud-only container network.

Technology: Elasticsearch, Varnish, RabbitMQ

Built to scale

Grow with an open-source platform built on OpenStack and designed from the ground up. The Liquid Web Cloud is reliable, redundant, and scalable to customer solutions of all sizes.

Technology: OpenStack, Kolla, Ansible, Docker

Deploy near-instant asset caching

Deliver assets near-instantly to your end-users with Nginx: an open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Positioned in front of your applications, Nginx is configured to perform short-lived, in-memory caching of frequently used assets.

Technology: Nginx with SSL termination, HTTP/2, Gzip compression, and bad bot management

Engineered for better application performance

Combine industry standard application compatibility and increased performance with a lower memory footprint, by using the latest version of the Apache web server for application delivery.

Technology: Apache 2.4 with PageSpeed

Powered by server side scripting

Utilize a memory-backed data store that can be used as an application cache and message broker.
The Liquid Web cloud includes a carefully tuned Redis instance designed for application caching and acceleration.

Technology: PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 8+. NodeJS 8 and 10 Python 2.7, 3.4, and 3.6. Ruby 2.2, 2.3, 2.5.

Backend application caching

Utilize a memory-backed data store that can be used as an application cache and message broker.

The Liquid Web cloud includes a carefully tuned Redis instance designed for application caching and acceleration.

Technology: Redis 7.0

A high-performance database

Run a carefully tuned and tested configuration of MariaDB: an open-source enhanced version of MySQL database server, written by the original creators of MySQL.

Technology: MariaDB 10.5