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[JasonKerner]

Hi,

I've got a VPS server with a total process limit of 100 process.

I know this sounds like a newbie question, what numbers would you recommend for the Apache 2 Conf file to get it running as best as possible without it taking the server down?

Thanks in advance,

Jason

[ServerSean]

Hello,

This depends on a number of factors including:

Guaranteed RAM
Bustable RAM
Other services running
Are the sites dynamic e.g. (PHP+MySQL)
What volume of traffic do you expect?

If you can post these up here we should be able to give a rough idea.

[TonyB]

If you want to stick to Apache would goood option is to compile it with the worker mpm and have PHP handled through FastCGI.

Nothing really to do with configuration files, but can provide a big boost.

[JasonKerner]

Ok, I've got PHP5 and mySQL 5 running on the server and the sites being served use PHP and mySQL a fair bit.

I want to be able to have Apache configured so that I can get as many users as possible out of it without it falling over.

Heres a screenshot from the 'top' command of Unix on the server to give you an idea of memory states, as far I know, the VPS server itself has 4Gb RAM, but I'm not sure how much of that I have accessible on my VPS package. Its running FreeBSD 6, so I'm guessing it'll have 256Mb or 512Mb RAM allocated to it.

Jason

[JasonKerner]

Heres the link to the screenshot, forgot to put the link in

homepage.mac.com/jasonkerner/server.png (copy and paste into address bar)

Jason