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derrickhand300:Litespeed /mariaDB got everything in the dashboard working again....but even with MariaDB my score is 200 and a 40 for the DB...still trying to resolve that...
So:
MariaDB = fork of MySQL
LiteSpeed - fork of Apache
Just changing to MariaDB will buy you a little speed (since it's a bit faster in SOME ways than MySQL). I can't speak about LiteSpeed since we don't use it.
I would not expect just changing to MariaDB to do anything much for speed - sounds like you need to optimize your database config. How much memory do you have on your server? What does your current /etc/mysql/my.cnf file look like?