Alas... ๐คจ It appears we celebrated a bit too early on this one...
So my initial testing was done on a quick test site - and at first everything appeared to be working...
Unfortunately when I did testing with an actual production / Live site, I discovered it's actually not compatible.
LiteSpeed plugin caches the crap out of Panda. Stuff like user logged in, cart etc. are all cached.
Yes it's blazing fast - but it's not working.
Apparently Panda needs to be modified to handle LiteSpeed.
I've reached out to the LiteSpeed plugin author and she appears to be willing - but has other priorities to wrap up first.
At the same time, I've reached out to @Jonny to check his willingness & availability. Will update this thread when I know more.
Perhaps someone here has been able to make Panda compatible with LiteSpeed? Bytw: A side benefit of being on a LiteSpeed server (even without the plugin), is that the server is natively faster than Apache/Nix.
Also, when you're on a LiteSpeed server, it comes with a modified and optimised LiteSpeed version of Memcached.
When this is enabled (both in PHP options and TB caching settings) you get a speed boost anyway. No, not 'light speed', but it certainly is close.