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July 07, 2005
Traffic-proofing servers
Traffic-proofing servers: Brandon Harper writes of what he did when finding that material on his little Celeron 466 server was suddenly linked to a hot topic on Slashdot. First step was to turn dynamic content (database query) into a static HTML page... next step was to optimize Apache's settings for a high traffic load... then he shut down other processes on that computer so that more cycles could be dedicated to serving requests. After tweaking, his eventual CPU utilization was only 30%. He closes with a set of tips and judgments on what he learned from the sudden traffic burden.
Posted by John Dowdell at July 7, 2005 05:36 PM
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