| Posted by jasi, 10-29-2012, 02:37 PM | | Hello,
I am having some problems with my current server, my current configuration is the following:
Intel Xeon Jaketown E5 2603 (quadcore)
32GB Ram
2x 1TB HDD
/29
20TB BW
1 GBPS port uplink
Centos 6
with cPanel
Here is my problem: When a commercial that features my website is shown, i get tons of people trying to come in at the same time (anywhere from 500- to 5- 7 or even 10k ) at the same time. The server has been configured within apache to withstand that kind of traffic and process that many simultaneous requests. Unfortunately this does not happen, and what in fact does end up happening is that my website becomes extremely slow to load if it even loads at all. Basically it becomes unresponsive until a few minutes pass by and not so many people are trying to access at the same time.
Is there anything that can be done to fix this problem? Because I feel like my money is not being well spent on commercials if every time they are on my website crashes due to traffic.
All the help would be appreciated, thank you!
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| Posted by MindaugasC, 10-29-2012, 02:44 PM | | Hello,
Maybe its not to many people, maybe bad configuration?
Just show mysql processlist (there can be sleeped processes).
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| Posted by OscarS, 10-29-2012, 03:31 PM | | This is a problem of configuration, hire someone to optimize the server for you and look forward with your problem.
Best Regards.
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| Posted by jasi, 10-29-2012, 03:39 PM | | So the actual specs of my server are okay to handle this kind of traffic?
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| Posted by OscarS, 10-29-2012, 03:41 PM | | It can be. No one will know this for sure without any access from the server, but as you said "10k at the same time" you probably will need a better solution.
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| Posted by MindaugasC, 10-29-2012, 04:51 PM | | I'm 90% sure, the problem is in server configuration...
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| Posted by cyberhouse, 10-29-2012, 06:41 PM | | depends on what kind of site you have a decent server admin should be able to tell you what your problem is.
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| Posted by jasi, 10-29-2012, 08:58 PM | | Is there anybody here that would be willing to help me figure this out that is experienced in the server admin world?
Thanks
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| Posted by Server Management, 10-29-2012, 09:34 PM | | Is this a single site?
If so, Forget cPanel go down the Virtualmin route with the Nginx module.
Then with Nginx add memcached or xcache along with Gzip and tweak the workers and connections, etc
Its a simple fact Apache will not hold up with that sort of traffic hitting it the way your traffic shaping is happening.
This will hold up well for you
Last edited by Server Management; 10-29-2012 at 09:39 PM.
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| Posted by ayksolutions, 10-29-2012, 10:04 PM | | Try Litespeed as well. It works with cpanel and is quite fast.
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| Posted by andrewlarioza, 10-29-2012, 10:11 PM | | Heya,
Better yet. Check and evaluate your Web server config and dig out logs this will give an idea on what causes this abnormality on your server.
HTH.
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| Posted by SolaDrive, 10-29-2012, 11:46 PM | | Another thing, setup a CDN. Easiest and cheapest solution would be sign up at CloudFlare. We have done this to clients with similar problems and it resolved their issues.
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| Posted by BestServerSupport, 10-30-2012, 09:21 AM | | You need to tweak your apache settings like maxclients and MaxRequestsPerChild Directive in order to increase number of concurrent connections.
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| Posted by Server Management, 10-30-2012, 01:25 PM | | From the OP it appears that has already been done.
Having that sudden surge of traffic with Apache simply makes it feels like its being DDoS which is not the case and it simply bombs out.
With either dodgy traffic or complete clean traffic from general browsers a sudden surge of traffic with Apache simply will not work well without something else in the mix such as a reverse proxy.
Regards,
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