Recompile Scheduled Tonight

[Jason]

We'll be going down for about 10-15 minutes tonight at 10:30 PM EST to try to clear up the rest of the server problems that we are experiencing. We have found another potential problem, our Apache MaxClients. Currently our MaxClients are set at 256, this means at any given second, there can be 256 people that can establish a server connection. it seems that we are riding that number continuously, causing some connections to be refused. After the recompile, we will be able to set our MaxClients upwards to a maximum of 1000, however we will try it out at 400 to begin with.

Will this finally solve the issue for everyone? Lets keep our fingers crossed.

[Jason]

I've just spent some time going through our server logs, and I've finally found the real culprit. We've had some more extreme abuse on httpcity. Someone created a few dozen accounts with massive .bmp files. It was eating up 50 gigs of transfer a day, and using our system resources. This situation kill ke kept on top of to ensure that it does not happen again.

[Red Circle Web Hosting]

Personally i like colbalt RAQ servers you should check them out!They have amazing admin capabilities!Well thats my 2 cents!

Chris
Just a thought!}:-)

[Jason]

Hi Chris,

We actually used a RAQ about a year and a half ago (or so). It was our first dedicated server, after finally moving off of a low cost shared server. We were only on it for about a week. It wasn't able to support our needs (and our sites were much smaller back then). It was constantly overloaded, and down as much as it was up. We've switched servers three times since then, switching to a larger one each time. Right now our config consists of:

Hardware:
1028 RAM
800 Processor
4 HDs 32 Gigs each
Raid Level 4 Controller Card

Software:
Linux Red Hat
Apache
Webmin
etc...

It's pretty powerful, It would take quite a few RAQs networked together to handle the 400,000+ daily pageviews, actions, etc that take place on the server :D



[Edited by Jason on 03-13-2001 at 01:16 PM]

[Red Circle Web Hosting]

Its a good server for newbs and hosting small webs ties (25mb each)

hehe thats what im going to be runing on

}:-) Chris

[Red Circle Web Hosting]

I am giving into the compition of the apache server!They are better than colbalt :-) Thanks for the tip jason now my web hosting cost are way cheaper!!!


Regards,
Chris

[JohnM]

yeah, Jason, a few days ago I had trouble connecting to this site, it said it was maxed out or something, only got in after trying for liek 10 minutes :)

Happened to me all day that day.

[Jason]

That would be the MySQL database. Although the server load has been operating within tolerable limits, the MySQL connections have been maxing out from time to time. The MySQL database is also shared by httpCITY, for the member area login (which is why the connections have been completely filled from time to tome). We're working on bumping the MaxClients on the database (it may actually have been done already), but this is independent of the rest of the server, which means if HTMLforums wasn't connectable, the rest of the server probably was.

Down the line, we will have to switch to something other than MySQL. It's ok for moderate sized databases, but the connection demand will undoubtedly continue to grow, and MySQL does have connection absolutes. Will a more robust database such as Sybase or Oracle be the solution? It just might.