I rented a server from VD a month ago and hosted some of my websites. But I'm constantly noticing that my websites are loading very slow. How can I check if other users are experiencing the same problem, or if the problem lies with my Internet connection?
View 4 RepliesI am using Putty to connect to my server via ssh.
When opening a direct connection, i can login quickly without any problem
Quote:
login as: gracie
gracie@server1's password:
Last login: Thu May 7 07:31:26 2009 from 192.168.0.5
gracie@server1 [~]# sudo su -
Password:
root@server1 [~]#
When I open a connection FROM ANOTHER SERVER, I have to wait more than 20 seconds
Quote:
login as: tech2
tech2@server2's password:
Last login: Thu May 7 07:32:07 2009 from 192.168.0.5
tech2@server2 [~]# ssh gracie@192.168.0.222
Password:
After I enter the password, I waited 20 seconds before I am logged in.
I am developing an application on a load balanced network.
It is configured as follows:
Webserver1, Webserver 2 (Fedora 5 - Linux, Apache, Zend Opt, PHP)
and a DataBase Server (MySQL)
When the webserver attempt to use the Database server the connections and page output are REALLY slow!
The database server is within the webservers local intranet - so I thought it would be a lot faster.
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Here is a quick test: : :
Testing Database Connection on localhost
Connecting to Database... 0.00054502487182617 seconds
SELECT * FROM users... 0.00076389312744141 seconds
Testing Database Connection on '192.168.1.200'
Connecting to Database... 19.998768091202 seconds
SELECT * FROM users... 0.0021719932556152 seconds
20 seconds to connect to the database server...
My machine is pretty good. Here are the specs:
Intel Xeon-Woodcrest 5148-DualCore
3 gigs of ram
250GB Western Digital WD Cavia
I run a forum with a modest amount of traffic along with a content management system handling the other sections of the website. I'm pretty sure the forum isn't the problem though.
The server load for this machine is almost never above a 1. Right now as I type this the load is at 0.17, but it's unbearably slow! Taking up to 16 seconds to load a single page.
What could be causing this? I'm a server n00b. Is there a setting I should be doing to one of my servers configuration files to make it run faster?
My website gets 30-40,000 visitors a day and these problems always occur during peak hours. It would be easier to deal with this though if not for the fact that the server load is always so low. How is it possible for the site to get so slow while the server load is always so low?
I use Charter as my ISP. Normally my connection speeds are VERY fast to the majority of the web. However, my own website has become like molasses in January (it wasn't always this way, or I would have not chosen my host), as can the entire hosting service. For the sake of discussion, I use two networked PC's, one is Win2K and the other is XP. Both are using the latest free version of ZoneAlarm, NO virus checker. I have a Linksys router. Asking for tech support with Charter is equivalent to wanting to discuss the methods for rebooting your PC with someone who didn't grow up speaking English. I've tried, it's useless.
(Warning: my site is about nude art photography, so don't look if you don't want to see that. The site is pencilartist.com, and I am hosted with Lunar Pages.)
I've run tracert several times, and I always come up with a timeout on the first hop.
I've asked a friend to view both my site and Lunar Pages from his Charter account (lives 5 miles from me) and he says both come up in nanoseconds. I've tried various online speed checkers, and they all give blazing results.
Here's the latest tracert:
Quote:
Tracing route to pencilartist.com [216.227.212.182]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 21 ms 11 ms 13 ms 10.208.128.1
3 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms 68.186.73.29
4 11 ms 23 ms 13 ms 68.186.73.49
5 15 ms 17 ms 24 ms 12.87.58.5
6 17 ms 19 ms 17 ms tbr1.st6wa.ip.att.net [12.122.111.14]
7 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 12.127.6.57
8 17 ms 19 ms 25 ms so-3-2-0.gar1.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.68.127.109]
9 19 ms 17 ms 18 ms ae-31-53.ebr1.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.68.105.94]
10 45 ms 16 ms 18 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.69.132.17]
11 39 ms 38 ms 33 ms ae-61-61.csw1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.134.194]
12 48 ms 49 ms 40 ms ae-63-63.ebr3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.134.225]
13 41 ms 37 ms 55 ms ae-2.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.132.10]
14 56 ms 57 ms 53 ms ae-78.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.135.13]
15 71 ms 53 ms 47 ms ae-21-54.car1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.102.1
08]
16 46 ms 45 ms 44 ms ge1-1.cr01.lax01.mzima.net [64.156.173.126]
17 46 ms 52 ms 52 ms xe1-0.cr01.lax02.mzima.net [64.235.224.182]
18 47 ms 45 ms 49 ms ge2-lunarpages.cust.lax02.mzima.net [72.37.172.2
6]
19 45 ms 60 ms 46 ms ge2-lunarpages.cust.lax02.mzima.net [72.37.172.2
6]
20 48 ms 47 ms 45 ms lioba.lunarpages.com [216.227.212.182]
Trace complete.
So is the problem just in my local connection? What is happening?
For about the last two weeks I've had issues connecting with the website that I help run www.learnoutloud.com from my home connection which is Time Warner Cable Internet connection in Los Angeles. I'm on a Dell laptop Inspiron 6000 running Windows XP. I'm always able to connect to the site but what's happening is the page will get hung up on loading a single image usually and then it will take about a minute just to load that last image. And sometimes the page won't load at all, but all it takes usually is hitting the refresh button and the page loads instantly. I was hoping this issue would just go away, but it's been persistent after numerous restarts of our cable modem and switching from wireless to plugged in and so forth. And it's really only happening for our site and no others, which is just puzzling.
At our office on our DSL connection our site loads fine and we haven't had any customer complaints about the site loading slow like this. Our traffic numbers have stayed steady so I don't think it's a global problem connecting with our site. At home I conduct a trace route and it looks good:
Tracing route to learnoutloud.com [72.34.53.155]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 5 ms 5 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 15 ms 13 ms 12 ms cpe-76-170-64-1.socal.res.rr.com [76.170.64.1]
3 12 ms 11 ms 9 ms 76.166.6.77
4 11 ms 12 ms 12 ms tge9-3.bwlaca1-rtr2.socal.rr.com [76.166.1.6]
5 11 ms 12 ms 16 ms tge9-2.bwlaca1-rtr1.socal.rr.com [76.166.1.4]
6 14 ms 15 ms 47 ms tge2-2-0.lsanca1-rtr1.socal.rr.com [66.75.161.20
1]
7 15 ms 18 ms 25 ms xe-8-1-0.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.78.195.
189]
8 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae-12-69.car2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.20.4]
9 16 ms 15 ms 25 ms INTERNAP-NE.car2.Level3.net [4.71.36.78]
10 15 ms 15 ms 27 ms border1.po2-bbnet2.ext1.lax.pnap.net [216.52.255
.86]
11 16 ms 38 ms 25 ms insiderh-2.border1.ext1.lax.pnap.net [63.251.209
.106]
12 19 ms 29 ms 18 ms 72.34.41.10
13 32 ms 18 ms 18 ms 72.34.53.155
Trace complete.
Does anyone know what the heck is going on and how I can fix this?
OS CentOS 6.5 (Final)
Plesk version 12.0.18 Update #6, last updated at July 2, 2014 11:13 AM
The system is up-to-date; last checked at June 27, 2014 04:43 AM
All current websites on the server seem to work fine any new subscriptions we cannot get working at all.
We can connect via FTP to new sites SOMETIMES - just cant get directory listing. When we can connect and get into a directory it slows down.
In Active mode:
Command:MLSD
Response:425 Unable to build data connection: Connection refused
Error:Failed to retrieve directory listing​
Install Wordpress via the Parallels panel it loads and says it is all there, just can't log or display any pages. The default Parallels page is displayed.
Upload a html page via the File Manager in Parallels and it displays the default Parallels page.
Unpack the Wordpress tar file via File Manager and it displays the default Parallels page.
The Wordpress feature in Parallels says it is working fine, can't display any page, can't log in as it returns a 404 page or the default Parallels page.
Create a site in Presence builder and Parallels says there is a site. The default Parallels page is displayed when opening the site.
Go to DOMAINS and there is 0mb in space used and there are files listed in the File Manager - none of which can be displayed.
My site is very slow. But I can not find the reason.
Here is the top
Code:
top - 22:04:07 up 22:09, 1 user, load average: 0.44, 0.43, 0.34
Tasks: 402 total, 1 running, 401 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.3%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.8%id, 0.1%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2074804k total, 2007836k used, 66968k free, 72720k buffers
Swap: 4192956k total, 96k used, 4192860k free, 641728k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17133 apache 20 0 27752 9.9m 3392 S 4 0.5 0:02.25 httpd
6306 apache 20 0 27772 9.9m 3452 S 4 0.5 0:08.04 httpd
2261 mysql 20 0 251m 88m 4752 S 3 4.3 48:25.58 mysqld
17081 apache 20 0 27700 9.9m 3496 S 2 0.5 0:02.81 httpd
17105 apache 20 0 27112 9504 3428 S 2 0.5 0:02.62 httpd
11844 apache 20 0 27756 9.9m 3444 S 0 0.5 0:06.21 httpd
13676 apache 20 0 27700 9.9m 3440 S 0 0.5 0:04.74 httpd
13718 apache 20 0 27424 9856 3448 S 0 0.5 0:04.83 httpd
16690 apache 20 0 26628 8980 3408 S 0 0.4 0:01.88 httpd
When run
[root@nd10749 ~]# netstat -an |grep 80 |wc -l
2788
It was able to handle over 5000 connection without problem.
When checked the log, can not find anything suspicous.
my site is terribly slow, especially if there are several users accessing it at once.
Is there a way to to find out what exactly is slow, so I know what to tackle?
Since there is no caching at the moment, I think that is a good point to start.
The reason that there is no caching, is because Internet Explorer kept showing stale content, whatever I tried. How do you make sure that IE doesn't cache the dynamic pages?
This also means that images are not cached and pages with several images, seem to load a lot slower, sometimes not even showing all images the first time the page is loaded.
Does anybody know what I can do to improve on this?
I had an VPS in SLHost and experiencing fall downs and slow server... now I moved and I check that the VPS is fast and great, but my sites are loading too slow...
I mean the connect time is too long; the time between connect and sending first byte goes from 5 to 12 seconds! My provider can't find what's wrong and I'm a little lost in this
I have a website www.officegofor.ca. The site takes a very long time to load. I don't think it's because of the server's connection speed. What would be the best way to diagnose the problem? What could the problem be? I noticed that it get's slower and slower with time and when I restart apache it's faster (but still not fast enough).
View 1 Replies View Relatedour VPS hosting company did an upgrade the other day and now something is wrong with our home page, it takes about 30sec to load. They keep saying its a php problem, but the scripting is fine, the engine is fine and the only thing that changed is that they did an upgrade.
They don't seem to be able to grasp the problem, and it is making my boss go nuts. A web guy a know said it definately had to be something at their end, and everyone else is at a loss.
I wanna know if upload media to server for streaming will slow your site down?
Reason is that I have a few audio books on my server for my members to listen to, and I have a feeling that my site is using more and more resources and its getting slower and slower each day.
I moved from shared host to VPS a few days back. Since the move, the site becomes slow during particular time of the day. It appeared to be an issue of cron run by their another client and after promising that they would move that client to another node (I have spent more than 25 days to follow up on this till now) they backed off from their words but informed me about an alternative. Now, they say that the cron of that client was executing many scripts and they have spaced those scripts.
I am looking for a long-term host and was wondering:
1. VPS provides a minimum guaranteed stuff so what is the use of that guarantee if one client can make the server crawl (imagine 5 minutes or more to open a site).
2. Can a host be trusted who does not honour words.
I have built a database driven site with PHP & MySQL. Pages download quicker on some connections than other (obviously), however this is not due to connection speed. The web host server seems to respond very slowly to my boss's network (which is on a proxy server). Could it be that this problem is related to the web host? i.e. could it be that the web host is unequipped to deal quickly with this type of network?
On my home connection (2Mbps), pages often download instantly, however occaisionally I have to wait 10-20 seconds to receive the page from the host.
Finally, could you recommend an excellent web host to use with our site? My boss wants to offer a professional service where server response is quick. We are based in the UK.
I've got 25 domains on a Virtuozzo/Plesk8.6/CentOS5 VPS. Each domain has one up-to-date install of WordPress, most have very little traffic (average 200mb per month), maybe 2 domains get 5-7gb traffic per month.
I monitor port 80 connections and rarely see more than 10 at a time.
That should in my opinion be no problem at all for a VPS with 768mb guaranteed ram and 2.4ghz cpu. I've got 30gb hard drive spare too.
But.... about 8 or 10 times a day it grinds to a complete halt: server load at 500-1000%, sites timing out, plesk takes 3mins to load, often I can't even connect with SSH, and the plesk web server, apache
INSERT INTO module_watchdog_sys_stat (time, type, value, service_id) VALUES(FROM_UNIXTIME(1226404705), 'MAINMEM_USAGE', 17472, 11);
80 seconds sounds like a huge amount of time for a MySQL insert to me! Does anyone know if this is likely to be the cause of my trouble? Some problem with Plesk and the database? Or could it be something else?
I have ftp server (pure-ftp). with firewall.
i allowed 20 and 21 port in "CSF" firewall
now when i or our client connect to the server connection done.
and the they fire dir or ls command they will receive error
"425 Could not open data connection to port 2535: Connection timed out"
what is the problem.i have already allowed passive port 2500:3500 then why i received this types of error
this is my server and i host only one site as upload image but it is too slow and usully apache down
how i can optimize this server please
Processor Information
Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2262.422 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 512 KB
Memory Information
Memory: 1002104k/1015744k available (2150k kernel code, 12844k reserved, 716k data, 164k init, 98240k highmem)
System Information
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL #1 Fri Oct 6 05:59:54 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Physcial Disks
Current Memory Usage
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1003164 976220 26944 0 102932 471740
-/+ buffers/cache: 401548 601616
Swap: 1052216 171412 880804
Total: 2055380 1147632 907748
frends now iam haveing dedicated server with pentium-4 and RAM is 2GB,my site online members is more than 100 members,now i feel slow in server,what i have add extra RAM or any chage in server
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhy is my hosting server usually slow and down?
CPU Usage : 100%
Main : >3GB (total physical memory: 3GB)
i dont know Do user access to website that are hosted on my server too crowded make server slow while bandwidth only have 4MB.
Server is dead slow. Its 3.0 1GB Ram Plesk Lniux Red Hat E4 machine. The top -c result is as below.
197 total, 6 running, 191 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.0% us, 1.7% sy, 0.3% ni, 0.0% id, 94.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 1027556k total, 953880k used, 73676k free, 23604k buffers
Swap: 2040244k total, 102308k used, 1937936k free, 87872k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3167 mysql 15 0 288m 67m 4336 S 0.8 6.8 40:37.97 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --
3247 apache 18 0 125m 75m 4344 D 0.7 7.5 0:00.34 /usr/sbin/httpd
3039 root 26 10 13628 5808 2656 S 0.3 0.6 0:00.69 mytop
3250 apache 16 0 121m 71m 4520 R 0.3 7.1 0:00.35 /usr/sbin/httpd
4671 apache 15 0 141m 89m 6512 S 0.2 9.0 0:57.54 /usr/sbin/httpd
1882 popuser 15 0 4176 700 564 S 0.2 0.1 0:00.17 /usr/bin/pop3d Maildir
2111 popuser 15 0 4036 712 564 S 0.2 0.1 0:00.47 /usr/bin/pop3d Maildir
3327 apache 17 0 124m 73m 5556 R 0.2 7.3 0:00.50 /usr/sbin/httpd
1 root 16 0 3580 484 456 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.11 init [3]
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.01 [ksoftirqd/0]
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.56 [events/0]
4 root 9 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper]
5 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kacpid]
19 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kblockd/0]
40 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [aio/0]
20 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khubd]
39 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 4:09.01 [kswapd0]
186 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kseriod]
295 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 2:29.80 [kjournald]
1373 root 6 -10 2272 376 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 udevd
1606 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kauditd]
1648 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kmirrord]
1672 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kjournald]
1673 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kjournald]
2443 root 15 0 1608 528 456 D 0.0 0.1 2:14.13 syslogd -m 0
2447 root 16 0 2696 368 316 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd -x
2474 rpc 15 0 3304 404 400 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 portmap
2493 rpcuser 18 0 2648 528 524 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rpc.statd
2519 root 16 0 4672 188 152 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 rpc.idmapd
2590 root 15 0 1952 436 284 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/smartd
2599 root 19 0 1940 356 352 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/acpid
2659 named 16 0 43736 7664 1884 S 0.0 0.7 12:22.15 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf -u named -t /var/name
2702 root 16 0 4956 912 792 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.86 /usr/sbin/sshd
2715 root 16 0 3104 712 620 S 0.0 0.1 1:02.87 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
2869 postgres 16 0 19772 1440 1332 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.08 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
2873 postgres 18 0 10572 216 176 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 postgres: stats buffer
My server is so slow I don’t know where the problem is
Server Load from 2 to 8 Monthly bandwidth 1300 GB Unique visitor 4000 - 5000 daily Page loads 13.000 – 20.000
This is current server features
Intel Pentium 4 2.8Ghz 1024MB RAM Bandwidth: 1500GB
if it's possible to use ODBC to connect to a Windows box from a Linux cPanel server. We have attempted connections from PHP (both as CGI as well as Apache module) and we get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function odbc_pconnect() in...
and
Fatal error: Call to undefined function odbc_connect() in...
Is ODBC possible on cPanel servers?
I dont know much about what could be cuasing this so i come to you for advice, i am currently at wired tree on their VPS384 package with 348MB of ram and my site is really slow to load [url]sometimes it is so embaressing to show people i just dont bother, i am sure this is deferring visitors from my content how can i speed this up?
I can add more ram but it will push the price and if the price goes too high i might aswell move to a Hybrid with wiredtree.
problem with my server running CentOS 5.3.
I noticed that there are huge pings to my server from time to time, example:
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64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=2.93 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=2.70 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1901 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=899 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=2.69 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=2.62 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=2132 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=8 ttl=60 time=2.57 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=7 ttl=60 time=1190 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=10 ttl=60 time=2.65 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=9 ttl=60 time=1048 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=12 ttl=60 time=2.74 ms
64 bytes from HOSTNAME (server-IP): icmp_seq=11 ttl=60 time=1205 ms
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First I thought that it is network related, but most strange for me was that I did not have any packets lose.
Then I tried to ping from my server to other hosts - situation was the same - some ping were good and some were huge (700ms, 800ms, even 2000ms)
I checked:
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max
and it was 65536
Then I checked:
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_count
and it was ~1600 so normal.
dmesg was showing such errors:
conntrack_ftp: partial 227 3331059707+13
Then I checked ifconfig, here is the output:
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:21:57:2B:6F
inet addr:MAIN=IP Bcast:BCAST=IP Mask:255.255.255.192
inet6 addr: fe80::224:21ff:fe57:2b6f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:170557113 errors:0 dropped:2421127049 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:182047660 errors:0 dropped:46 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2756835074 (2.5 GiB) TX bytes:79640621 (75.9 MiB)
Interrupt:82 Base address:0xe000
------------------
Strange for me was:
RX packets [...] dropped:2421127049
TX packets [...] dropped:46
I did not have such dropped information on all my other servers. Dropped counter for RX was constatnly increasing.
So I decided to restart all services on the server. After restarting network and ipaliases - problem disappeared. RX dropped counter is still rising, but I do not have any slowdowns on the server and pings are normal.
My question is - does anyone could have any idea what can casue my problem and how can I prevent this in the future?
i have a strange problem at my server ,
i hosted 1 wesite ( forum script with no plugins )
when my traffic consuption reache to 25mbs the server running very slow for hours although the load avarage is very normal 1-2 Iowait 3% ram consumption 8-10Gb
my uplink port 1Gb and of course my DC said the connection is normal with no limitation
the server specs are good
Quad procs 7200 ,16Gb ram ,15K SCSI speed
connections reache to 2000-2500 per seconds
My dedicated server starts to be a bit too slow.
But on Munin it seems just fine.
what can i do to solve this problem ?
This is the link to munin :
[url]
and this is what i have :
Quote:
Tier 1 Bandwidth: 2000GB
Operating System **Select One**: Ubuntu Server Edition (6.0x)
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Uplink Port Speed - Disc: 100mbps
Processor: Dual Processor Dual Core Xeon 5160 3.0GHz Woodcrest 2 x 4MB cache
My server gets 300 - 600 concurrent connections to http port 80, has a CPU load of 1 - 2%, has practically all RAM of 1 GB used, is running apache 2 and centos 5.
It tends to get slow and when I ban IPs that use many connections to my server (raping it), it becomes fast again. But soon after that new ******* users come which I again ban and the process repeats itself
I'm starting to think that maybe I just don't have enough RAM to handle them because it seems at least some of those users are legit. I don't however have even that much content that needs to be cached so I'm not sure what good RAM would do but perhaps apache just needs more.
Server is responding slow!
My server is responding slow
How can I prove to my web hosting company that the server is extremely slow and overloaded?
If I call support, they are saying that it is fine for them. But I've checked with different internet connections and it's slow.
I want to be moved to another server or get a partial refund or something. At this point my website is unusable during peak business hours.... and I get barley any traffic.
My server (Xeon 3.0Ghz) went down for no reason yesterday and ever since it was rebooted (and I've rebooted a couple of times since then), pages load extremely slowly or just timeout. Server load is constantly hovering around 1 and top stats indicate that the server's resources are not under heavy load, which is contrary to the usual pattern during peak times.
I've checked netstat and I notice a lot of SYN_RECV. Could this be a DoS attack? If so, what steps do I take to stop it?