Server Load

  • OK, sheesh, so tonight was my first “beta” test on a dedicated server with the following specs:

    Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
    Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz
    Processor #1 speed: 1995.054 MHz
    Processor #1 cache size: 1024 KB

    Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
    Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz
    Processor #2 speed: 1995.054 MHz
    Processor #2 cache size: 1024 KB

    We’re a local community newspaper and had a big school bond election, and before launching the actual blog to the public, I decided to sort-of pre-launch it with the results from this election, which cratered the site. Server stats are giving me the following:

    Server Load 2.80 (2 cpus) !

    Which is presumably what is crashing it.

    Is caching the way to solve this? If so, searching for caching plug-ins result in a myriad of different options and plug-ins; which do you recommend (if that will help my particular problem?)

    Many thanks, all!

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  • By “beta’ you mean this blog was working before you loaded the election results? Do you get any kind of error message? The hardware stats are not meaningful here, you appear to have a software issue, which may not be WordPress. and it is unlikely that caching will help you. If you are running plugins, you should try de-activating them, and if the blog works, turn them on one at a time to see if you can identify a culprit.

    FYI that Server Load is, I believe, 2.8/200 = 1.4%

    Thread Starter wcmessenger

    (@wcmessenger)

    By ‘Beta’ i mean that we only had a handful of viewers seeing it every day (the data was mirrored elsewhere in another older CMS for the entire public). Last night, however, I linked our election results to this WP blog, just to see if it could sustain the number of hits.

    I actually had to call our webhost (Inmotion Hosting) to have them reboot the server, which seemingly got it back online. Though looking at my server status today, I’m seeing (in Web Host Manager) it bounce between:
    Server Load 2.91 (2 cpus)
    and
    Server Load 1.80 (2 cpus)

    Wish I could have seen it last night before the crash. So that caching won’t help, eh?

    Caching would help I beleive. I’m hosting at Knownhost though for my server. It’s much better than inmotion.

    Thread Starter wcmessenger

    (@wcmessenger)

    Thanks, Elysian. So do you have a recommendation for a good caching plugin? WP-Cache?

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