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It's slow, but we should have the server back up and running. Sorry about this. Didn't think the site was going to get hammered like it did.

mattdeboard 14y ago
Your site took an unexpected ass-kicking.
- joelrunyon 14y ago
  50,000 hits in a few hours will do that to a site. Time to upgrade.
  - kragen 14y ago
    Depends. 50k hits in 3 hours is 5 hits a second. I could serve more than 10 hits a second on the first web server I ever set up, in 1994, on an SGI Indigo 2 with maybe a 250MHz CPU and 256 megabytes of RAM, using NCSA httpd, which spawned a new process for every hit. Under IRIX. While I was using it as a workstation. Also, doing a reverse DNS lookup for every hit for the access log. My current home page, http://canonical.org/~kragen/ http://canonical.org/~kragen/, benchmarks at 4000 requests per second with ab on localhost. That's roughly a thousand times the load you were under. This is not because our server is a thousand times faster than yours. (It's a dual-core 2.4GHz Celeron, running Apache.) This is because your server is doing a thousand times as much work as it needs to in order to serve that page.
    - kragen 14y ago
      I'm asserting that your server isn't a thousand times slower because a thousand times slower would be a high-end eight-bit microcontroller. An Arduino, say. Feel free to correct me if your server is in fact running on an Arduino or equivalent.
      - joelrunyon 14y ago
        I've had my tech guy speed things up. Got off shared hosting, on a VPS and should have things sped up all around. Still need to cut all the javascript in the current theme, but that's another project for another day.
        kragen 14y ago
        The JS might actually speed things up by allowing you to do stuff on the client that you'd otherwise have to do on the server.
jacques_chester 14y ago
with an out-of-the-box configuration, Wordpress is notorious for dying if you so much as breathe on it. It requires generous lashings of caching to make it workable. If you haven't already, install W3 Total Cache or WP-Supercache.
- joelrunyon 14y ago
  W3 TC is installed. Just had a massive influx over the last two days that overwhelmed even that. Seems like its time to upgrade hosting plans.

mattdeboard 14y ago

Your site took an unexpected ass-kicking.

joelrunyon 14y ago
50,000 hits in a few hours will do that to a site. Time to upgrade.
- kragen 14y ago
  Depends. 50k hits in 3 hours is 5 hits a second. I could serve more than 10 hits a second on the first web server I ever set up, in 1994, on an SGI Indigo 2 with maybe a 250MHz CPU and 256 megabytes of RAM, using NCSA httpd, which spawned a new process for every hit. Under IRIX. While I was using it as a workstation. Also, doing a reverse DNS lookup for every hit for the access log. My current home page, http://canonical.org/~kragen/ http://canonical.org/~kragen/, benchmarks at 4000 requests per second with ab on localhost. That's roughly a thousand times the load you were under. This is not because our server is a thousand times faster than yours. (It's a dual-core 2.4GHz Celeron, running Apache.) This is because your server is doing a thousand times as much work as it needs to in order to serve that page.
  - kragen 14y ago
    I'm asserting that your server isn't a thousand times slower because a thousand times slower would be a high-end eight-bit microcontroller. An Arduino, say. Feel free to correct me if your server is in fact running on an Arduino or equivalent.
    - joelrunyon 14y ago
      I've had my tech guy speed things up. Got off shared hosting, on a VPS and should have things sped up all around. Still need to cut all the javascript in the current theme, but that's another project for another day.
      - kragen 14y ago
        The JS might actually speed things up by allowing you to do stuff on the client that you'd otherwise have to do on the server.

jacques_chester 14y ago

with an out-of-the-box configuration, Wordpress is notorious for dying if you so much as breathe on it. It requires generous lashings of caching to make it workable. If you haven't already, install W3 Total Cache or WP-Supercache.

joelrunyon 14y ago
W3 TC is installed. Just had a massive influx over the last two days that overwhelmed even that. Seems like its time to upgrade hosting plans.