ganeshran Posted March 20, 2011 Posted March 20, 2011 Looks like the world cup is causing a huge influx of traffic and the site is very slow nowadays. It also goes down intermittently. So, is it time to get some Tendulkar servers? http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/fromeditor/archives/2010/02/tendulkar_breaks_cricinfo_reco.php
ViruRulez Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Rajiv and other admins, I would advise you to try out Nginx. I have experimented Nginx on a few of my high traffic servers and am quite impressed by the results. Go for Nginx instead of apache with fastcgi and php-fpm if needed. It can handle multiple times the traffic compared to Apache if configured properly. And it is also free like Apache. Many of the big vbulletin forums world over are already switching or have switched to Nginx and handle large amounts of traffic. You should also try out if you are facing server crashes frequently as you normally do.
ViruRulez Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 I believe there are a few administrators in the admins here (I am not a server admin myself though and get people to do these stuff :P ) but incase you do not know about Nginx then you can check here: http://wiki.nginx.org/Main http://nginx.org/
ganeshran Posted March 24, 2011 Author Posted March 24, 2011 Bump. aaj phir site down ho gayi yaar.. Cloud par host karo site ko :protest:
varun Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 Cloud par host karo site ko I had considered the option, hosted a temporary site for testing on AWS, but don't have time to do a full upgrade..
ganeshran Posted March 25, 2011 Author Posted March 25, 2011 I had considered the option' date=' hosted a temporary site for testing on AWS, but don't have time to do a full upgrade..[/quote'] Let me know if you want any help for testing on AWS. :icflove:
ganeshran Posted March 25, 2011 Author Posted March 25, 2011 I heard Azure is cheap too and supports PHP as well. Any idea if vbulletin can be deployed on Azure? Does vbulletin support SQL Server?
ViruRulez Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 If you want to continue with Apache then maybe a good caching like Varnish Cache might also help in reducing server CPU and memory load. http://www.varnish-cache.org/ Cloud hosting is a good option too as mentioned above though using Nginx as a frontend to Apache or using a good caching system like Varnish might also solve the problem. ICF is still doing fair enough to be frank considering that during matches there are 1000+ users at one time and they all browse simultaneous threads etc. and each one of them contributes several php processes at the same time thereby killing the server at peak times. With Nginx or maybe even by adding Varnish Cache (I have not used it myself) the server crashes should stop completely. But it might also be a headache to tweak all the applications like SS etc. to work fine with Nginx etc.
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