Old Dual Pentium III 500Mhz Servers

[Aaron Gray]

2009/11/11 Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com>:
> Aaron Gray wrote:
>>
>> 2009/11/10 David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au>:
>>>
>>> On 11/11/2009 04:54 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Computer users nightmare number 9:  Part way through the installation
>>>>> process, a message pops up, "You're going to need a bigger boat"
>>>>
>>>> Nice way of putting it!
>>>
>>> Ack ;-)
>>
>> Boat is actually big enough !
>>
>> Setting KeepAlive On and giving PHP processes more memory ie 128M, and
>> every thing is fine now. There are probably more Apache tweeks to look
>> at too.
>
> Depending on how much traffic you do, you should also look at things
> like a fastcgi implementation of Apache and PHP (PHP runs as a separate
> program and Apache talks to it via Unix or IP ports).  Keeps Apache
> from having to spawn PHP interpreters all the time and you don't have
> to worry about crud like suexec.  We use it all the time...big
> improvement in performance.

We are a pritty low traffic server. We only have 1MBit up link. But it
seems to be working a treat now.

Thanks,

Aaron