WordPress Chokes at around 200 concurrent users

  • rio38

    (@rio38)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    I run a fairly large photo blog and have a Virtual Dedicated Server From GoDaddy with 4 Gigs of RAM. The problem is that my blog starts to choke and I get “Problem Loading Page” errors when I reach about 200 concurrent users. It will speed back up when the traffic dies down.

    I really need to be able to handle these spikes and then some if I want to increase traffic. Is there some kind of limit on concurrent MySQL connections I can modify to help this?

    The URL is www[dot]thecrimsoncrow[dot]com.

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    14 years, 10 months ago

    If you’re on VPS, look into fine tuing your httpd.conf settings. Also install caching software.

    Thread Starter rio38

    (@rio38)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    IS it alright to use caching software if I am using “most popular post” “Random Post”, and Google Adwords? I thought all of that is dynamic.

    Do you have any specifics on the httpd.conf settings for my VPS configuration?

    Thanks.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Google ‘tuning VPS for WordPress’ and you’ll get a lot of advice. I hesitate at giving you explicit recomendations, becuase the min and a max server info is VERY specific per server and complicated if you generalize.

    You should be able to use those plugins with Caching. WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache are good. Also look into server side caching (APC) and minification.

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