Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Dennis
On 30/04/13 21:14, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: On 30 April 2013 20:38, Chris Dennis mailto:cgden...@btinternet.com>> wrote: At some stage I'll try out some of the more advanced ideas -- adding a reverse-proxy, or using mpm-worker instead of mpm-prefork, or replacing Apache with nginx

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-30 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On 30 April 2013 20:38, Chris Dennis wrote: > At some stage I'll try out some of the more advanced ideas -- adding a > reverse-proxy, or using mpm-worker instead of mpm-prefork, or replacing > Apache with nginx or Lightppd. Mod_PHP is not suited to running under MPM-Worker, as PHP is not thread

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Dennis
On 28/04/13 11:40, Chris Dennis wrote: Thanks for all the replies -- that will keep me busy working through the suggestions. I'll probably seek further advice from Chris M and others at the meeting on Saturday. And extra thanks to Andy for increasing our RAM allocation on the Bitfolk VPS. chee

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Dennis
Thanks for all the replies -- that will keep me busy working through the suggestions. I'll probably seek further advice from Chris M and others at the meeting on Saturday. And extra thanks to Andy for increasing our RAM allocation on the Bitfolk VPS. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Paul Freeman
On 2013-04-28 01:09, Michael Daffin wrote: If you are adding nginx or lighttpd, why not add them as a replacement to apache rather than just sitting in front of it? Both a better solutions if you want a low resource web server that scales better than apache does. +1 to that, 1. consider droppi

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Michael Daffin
On 28 April 2013 00:18, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Once you've gone as far with that as you can reasonably go, and once > you're sure it's not some unrelated software or an application > problem, the next scaling step is normally to put a lightweight > reverse proxy in front of Apache. > >

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chris, On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 05:32:23PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: > It may be that it doesn't have enough RAM (300MB) for Apache to run > WordPress properly. Or perhaps I just haven't configured things > right. I bumped the memory up a bit to 480MiB BTW. Sorry I can't offer any more just n

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread James Bensley
Hi Chris, I'd be more than happy to throw in my two peneth worth if you can sort out SSH access (I help maintain several Apache servers, although non are resource constrained but they are all reasonably tuned, so I may have some crossover of knowledge to offer) ? Have you looked at the server (vi

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Anton Piatek
I can't recall details from memory, but there is something like /server-status which can be enabled. It can tell you a but about how busy apache is. Worth looking at as it should tell you about thread and memory usage. Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in

Re: [Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Malton
Hi Chris, I can take a look at this with you next weekend - I've been running Apache in a memory constrained environment for quite some time now (256MB RAM), and it seems to be OK running Wordpress + a couple of other fairly high traffic sites. Regards, Chris On 27/04/13 17:32, Chris Denni

[Hampshire] Apache expertise required

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello folks As HantsLUG hostmaster, I'm looking after our server which, among other things, runs the hantslug.org.uk website. It works fine, until people actually start trying to access the site! At which point it tends to grind to a halt. It may be that it doesn't have enough RAM (300MB) f