I couldn't access my site a few minutes ago so I thought I was getting a DDOS attack because my apache server cut me off So I check the logs and the netstat connections and everything was within acceptable ranges, except for the fact that I had 1000+ single connections!!! So I upped my maxConnections php limit, log onto my forums, and viola! 1200 members online! Normal for us is ~400, so I'm having a good day! http://gunzfactor*com/forums
Thanks! Its been my baby for about 2 years. Hard work + unique content = success As for an update: It got to almost 1300, then we got a surge of traffic which was enough to crash my server I restarted it and upped my max-connection allowance, and now its running fine. I'll probably hit bout 20k uniques today
Don't even try if you don't know how to. Do it wrong and you could crash your sites until you fix it. Do it wrong and you probably wouldn't know how to fix it!!!
Currently Active Users: 544 (217 members and 327 guests) great! you have a lot of members, must be a nice forum,
It also depends on the kind of server you have, and you might be able to use your control panel to edit it. If you can't use the control panel, you go in to your apache httpd.conf file and edit it, save it, and restart apache. You can edit stuff like Timeout 50 KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 120 KeepAliveTimeout 10 StartServers 16 MinSpareServers 10 MaxSpareServers 20 MaxClients 125 MaxRequestsPerChild 5000 and then save da file and restart apache. Oh you also have to su root to get in to edit it. If there's any thing there you don't know how to do....ask some one that's using da same kind of dedicated server you use. You do have your own dedicated server and know a little SSH, right!!!
Ya .....I have a dedicated and have done ssh before like su - password: ****** enter command: vi /etc/php.ini I have done commands like that to change php.ini So I assume I just have set change a file in ssh
Its not as bad as he makes it sound.... if you own your own sever, you simply edit the httpd.conf file in your etc/httpd folder (or wherever you installed php) Dont dream... make it happen! Thats the goal now I'm pretty sure my server can handle it now, so its just a matter of time and hard work.