For the past couple days, I’ve been trying to figure out how I can keep our flagship sites up during sudden spikes of incoming traffic. We have moved to LiteSpeed Web Server two months ago and it does help; however the bottleneck is back to MySQL. So recently I enabled slow-queries log on MySQL server [...]

I don’t usually preach on how great a piece of product is on my personal blog, but this one is special. SlashGear is proudly running Wordpress and backed by Dual Xeon 3.0 and 4GB ram with 74GB Raid SCSI machine. We were running Apache 2.0 with MySQL 4.1 on it and when we got digg [...]

One of my server went into hiatus and we even restored it from scratch by installing RHEL 4 all over again and reconfigure, but for some reason Apache would crashed every 30 seconds. Error log shows nothing unusual and i cant figure out why as memory and etc seems to be on normal usage. So [...]