Site Speed

[Rho Delta]

We just started blowing up twitter and went from about 15 online people to a couple hundred. Our site slowed down MAJORLY. What are some things I can tweak to handle the massive load of users better?

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Wow your site is slow and there only seems to be 13 users online at the moment, are you sure you didn't have this problem previously?

 

[Rho Delta]

www.oldrow.net

I am on a dedicated server too.

 

[Paul B]

Are you on shared or dedicated hosting?

 

[Digital Doctor]

www.oldrow.net
I am on a dedicated server too.

very slow !
Something is wrong.
It cant be the traffic.

 

[Rho Delta]

It was fine literally until we tweeted the site to about 10,000 people...

 

[dtmcl]

Something must be wrong with your host.

Adminforums is on shared hosting with 20 members/200 guests online at most times and everything is fine.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Put out a sorry message notice about the site being slow.
"We are working on it"

 

[Digital Doctor]

if the pet board and oldrow are on the same server ... it is a host problem.
Both seem slow to me.

 

[Slavik]

We just started blowing up twitter and went from about 15 online people to a couple hundred. Our site slowed down MAJORLY. What are some things I can tweak to handle the massive load of users better?

Can you post up your CPU utilisation, your httpd load, mysql loads and netstat loads?

 

[Kier]

Do you have APC installed on your server? If not, install it. Now.

 

[TNCclubman]

what is APC?

 

[Paul B]

http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php

 

[Rho Delta]

Where in Cpanel can I check?

 

[Rho Delta]

Main Domain​

oldrow.net​

Home Directory​

​

Last login from​

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Disk Space Usage​

60.02 / 1000 MB
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Monthly Bandwidth Transfer​

1294.99 / 10000 MB
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Email Accounts​

3 / 10
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Subdomains​

0 / 2
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Parked Domains​

0 / 3
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Addon Domains​

0 / 3
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FTP Accounts​

0 / 2
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SQL Databases​

1 / 2
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MySQL Disk Space​

20.99 MB​

Mailing List Disk Space​

0 MB​

Hosting package​

Commercial​

Server Name​

serv1​

cPanel Version​

11.30.4 (build 6)​

Theme​

x3​

Apache version​

2.2.15​

PHP version​

5.2.13​

MySQL version​

5.0.92-community-log​

Architecture​

i686​

Operating system​

linux​

Shared IP Address​

206.214.211.212​

Path to sendmail​

/usr/sbin/sendmail​

Path to Perl​

/usr/bin/perl​

Perl version​

5.8.8​

Kernel version​

2.6.18-028stab070.5​

cPanel Pro​

1.0 (RC1)​

 

[Slavik]

cPanel, I think I found your problem

Anyways, make a php file and place <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it then open it up, look for a section labeled APC.

 

[Slavik]

Also, you should realy update your php to 5.3, and mysql to 5.5. while your at it updating to the lastest version of apache can't hurt either.

 

[Paul B]

Anyways, make a php file and place <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it then open it up, look for a section labeled APC.

No need.

It's built in to XenForo; just navigate to admin.php?tools/phpinfo

 

[Slavik]

No need.

It's built in to XenForo; just navigate to admin.php?tools/phpinfo

even knowing that if I ever had to find my php info id still make a file and put that inside it. Old habbits and dying hard and all that

 

[Rho Delta]

It looks like APC isn't installed, do I need to have my webhost install it?