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…)

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