Site slowness

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I have a site that is getting an average of 25,000+ unique a day with about 300,000+ pageview… What my site does it hosts images… I have a dedicated server using a dual xeon with 3gb of memory…
They site is so slow! I have been told by 2 previous dedicated hosting companies that it may be the scripting… I have had another person tell me it’s not the scripting… I’m stuck… not knowing what to do…
I have an older version of Apache, the company I am with now tell me that I should upgrade to Apache2.0 and kill the control panel…

I am getting on average 1400+ requests a second. Server load is only averaging .4 memory is at 50%, averaging 62mbps, Bandwidth last month was at 113TB!

Could someone give me any ideas on what to do??:huh:

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Yes. Use a light http server (like tiny httpd). If all you are doing is serving out files then you’re going to want to use something much lighter than a full version of apache.

I’m not sure about running something like thttpd and apache on the same server, I don’t know whether that would be possible - you might need to look into a second file server that you can pass requests for files off to. I’ve never set one up personally, but we have clients who have had to do this.

That should improve performance. I think your only road from there is to introduce load balancing… far more difficult to setup.