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On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Yecheondigital <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently I've been having server troubles lately and I wanted to see if
> anyone else was in a similar boat and how you overcame it. Because of these
> server issues, it's putting me in a difficult situation and I don't want to
> give up on a wiki I've been working on for the last 3 years. I'm hoping to
> get some advice from others who run their own wikis, especially high traffic
> wikis.
>
> Background information:
> -Front page runs wordpress (http://www.koreanwikiproject.com) --- however not
> much of the traffic goes here.
> -Most of the traffic goes to the wiki on the site:
> http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki
> -I get less than 2,000 hits a day.
> -I was on the shared dreamhost plan for a few years, until dreamhost couldn't
> handle the wiki anymore. Lots of time outs and processes getting killed for
> exceeding my shared memory capacity recently.
> -In the last week I switched to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) on dreamhost
> (two VPS actually: one is a regular VPS, the other is for mysql).
> -For the first week dreamhost gives you 2300mbs of memory to work with to
> gauge how much you need exactly. I turned on php caching using Xcache and
> this helped performance a lot. Memory usage is usually under 400 mbs, but I
> get these huge spikes sometimes (even exceeded the 2300 mbs given initially).
> Here is an image of my memory usage (does it every 20 mins I believe):
> http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/Memory_usage_aug19.png
> -The problem is the way dreamhost handles alloted memory over usage: It
> reboots the server. I don't understand why they do this, but they explained
> it was to protect the physical memory. This is annoying because anyone
> downloading anything on the server gets their connection severed and the site
> goes down for a short time. In fact I don't see this happening much to other
> websites.
>
> I know some of you guys who get a lot more than 2,000 hits and even have
> semantic wiki installed and still have done fine. Meanwhile, I'm not sure I
> want to pay $36 a month for 2 VPS servers (One is a regular VPS, the other is
> for mysql) that is going to have it's connection severed several times a day
> due to memory spikes. At the same time I don't want to give up on a wiki I've
> been working on the past 3 years, so surely there must be a better way than
> me having to pay $100 a month for my own server, especially when my traffic
> isn't that high. Some advice from others who run wiki sites would be really
> appreciated and even comparisons on what you guys are running with the amount
> of traffic you get if possible.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
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