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One of the servers we’ve had for a while was running a bit slow. After a few hours of searching, I’ve found out that one of the PHP scripts was running a mailer and it was just dragging the system down. Although most of the load was through exim, our mailer, I found that apache was hogging up a bit of resources as well. Since our server load was high and we were getting a decent number of visitors hitting on our vBulletin as well as a PHP lyrics script that I partially wrote for our Vietnamese lyrics website. I went to search on how to optimize PHP scripts and I came up with eAccelerator. (more…)
php · php optimization · speed up php · speed up php and apache · web development
For the past few days, Softlayer had very good "specials" for their server deals. What’s the deal?
FREE Double Default RAM and Double Default Drive on any Seattle Server Base Priced $179.00 or Higher
Well, since we were already paying $189 for one of our servers, why not jump on this deal? Essentially, before this deal, our server specs was Opteron 170, 2GB of ram, 250GB of diskspace. Now, for just $10 more, this is the beast we’re getting: (more…)
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So, at about 10:30 my time, the server went down, and I have no idea why. I was connected to SSH during that time, and I could ping it from my other linux box. At first, I thought it was some sort of spambot trying to access the server at a high rate, so the server is not responding. Now, I am not so sure anymore.
I went to log into the webhost’s administration page to reboot the server. Once I got in, I did the usual rebooting. Five minutes went by, nothing. Ten, nothing. It’s not starting to look so good. So, naturally, I looked at the IPMI sensors and found out that Fan #3 was not spinning at all. Its RPM at exactly 0. (more…)
