brainbone Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 After seeing osx86project.com overwhelmed by digg, I couldn't help but wonder where the bottleneck was. -Was it your host/connection? -Was is PHP? -Was it MySQL? -Are you running any PHP optimizers or accelerators? -Have you looked into distributing the load over multiple low cost hosts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14204-questions-on-site-and-how-it-was-downed-by-digg/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Great question. From a traffic perspective we had around 1000 users on the forum before the diggs, plus 2 diggs going at the same time. Thankfully we're on our new server which could handle much more than before. Since this was the first big action since we switched servers, we wanted to use it as a chance to test our settings and see what we should tweak. If you're an expert in this area and have suggestions, we always welcome them! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14204-questions-on-site-and-how-it-was-downed-by-digg/#findComment-90576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainbone Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 I'm too modest to call myself an expert on anything, but I'd be happy to help. To give any suggestions, I'd first need to know where you believe the problem was. Was the CPU(s) pegged? By what processes? Was disk activity high? Did you saturate your allotted bandwidth? etc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14204-questions-on-site-and-how-it-was-downed-by-digg/#findComment-90596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 It was a question of RAM, namely, this server is unbalanced and needs more to handle that many concurrent requests smoothly. Swapping = bad. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14204-questions-on-site-and-how-it-was-downed-by-digg/#findComment-90631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainbone Posted April 7, 2006 Author Share Posted April 7, 2006 That would do it. If you haven’t already, you may want to give eAccelerator, or other PHP cache, a try... though I'm not sure how much it would've helped if you were that starved for ram. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14204-questions-on-site-and-how-it-was-downed-by-digg/#findComment-90661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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