Comments on: Running Apache On A Memory-Constrained VPS

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Web Hosting Shared Hosting Domain — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:31:31 +0000

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Setup nginx and wordpress on VPS | Nginx Lighttpd Tutorial — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:17:07 +0000

[…] Here is a excellent tutorial show you how to Setup nginx and wordpress on VPS: First easy thing is to use Ningx instead of Apache for the web server. This may or may not be an easy thing to do – if you need (or prefer) to stay with Apache, Patrick McKenzie has some good advice on how to avoid Apache crashing and burning under load on a small VPS. […]

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Fast WordPress/Nginx setup on a cheap VPS « Senko's Blog — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:34:47 +0000

[…] First easy thing is to use Ningx instead of Apache for the web server. This may or may not be an easy thing to do – if you need (or prefer) to stay with Apache, Patrick McKenzie has some good advice on how to avoid Apache crashing and burning under load on a small VPS. […]

By: Javier

Javier — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:40:18 +0000

Hi Patrick,
Great article, just one quick question, what about the TimeOut directive. Any special recommendations?

Cheers.
Javier.

By: Gabor Vitez

Gabor Vitez — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:05:31 +0000

I’ve used apache’s event MPM with great success.

Moving from the prefork MPM + mod_php to event MPM + mod_fcgid + php as fcgi saved ~300 MB of memory on a busy server.

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Optimizing Wordpress on my VPS « Code and Me — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:00:47 +0000

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Tweaking Wordpress | ShadowLANs — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:23:41 +0000

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By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:39:43 +0000

I am using the same slicehost VPS as you (but smaller – 256MB) and was able to run nginx with php, mysql and WP. Mostly using the instructions from here: http://www.mensk.com/webmaster-toolbox/perfect-ubuntu-hardy-nginx-mysql5-php5-wordpress/
The big memory usage is from mysql and PHP, but I do not use custom compiled binaries and my settings are probably not optimal.
My keep-alive settings are 5s.

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Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:28:08 +0000

[…] Yesterday about a hundred thousand people visited this blog due to my post on names, and the server it was on died several fiery deaths. This has been a persistent issue for me in dealing with Apache (the site dies nearly every time I get Reddited — with only about 10,000 visitors each time, which shouldn’t be […] Original post […]

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