Hi, i need a system admin to sort out my server for me.
Apache keeps failing due to a large number of IP requests, to the 12,000 images that currently on my server. I need a sys admin to fix this problem and find a perminant solution.

Greetings,

I'd recommend the following setup if you have a single server:
1) Run your main site, file upload system and so on from a copy of apache, this enables you to keep your existing upload scripts.
2) Run your images on a different type of httpd which is optimised for serving single files, such as thttpd or even mathopd. Both of these use a single thread, non blocking IO model to serve files, you can serve over twice the amount of files per second, with either of these in comparison to apache.

if you are interested, feel free to PM me.



Tom:)

You could use thttpd with php compiled into it so you can still use your scripts.

thelinuxguy, thttpd need only for images. It meant, apache listen on one ip, thttpd on other, and all links to images set on other ip.
I hope you understand me.

andreyka i know this but some people use. I have setup many image hosting sites, I know how it works.

http://www.domain.com/images/something

which would require redirecting.. now if he compiled thttpd with php he could do away with the extra apache and run one httpd server and not have to worry about redirecting.

If you're still looking, hit me up on icq : 286608143.

thelinuxguy, redirecting not need if you install thttpd as fronted to apache, both on one IP.