Server Status -- All Good!
We're all good on the server side of things here. If you want more
technical information, read on: When we moved to a new set of servers, we wanted to reduce the amount
of memory available on each server. Rather than have 1 server with a
gig of memory, we moved to a set of servers with 256mb each. Trouble
was, that wasn't enough. We needed more than 256 and try as we might --- couldn't make it fit.
So the memory got taken up, moved to "swap" and then that got taken
up. No good came of this and the site slowed from a crawl to a stop.
We increased the memory on the application/web server to 512 and all
has been good for a while. Probably too much information, but there you go! Back to stable and
ready for the long haul.
technical information, read on: When we moved to a new set of servers, we wanted to reduce the amount
of memory available on each server. Rather than have 1 server with a
gig of memory, we moved to a set of servers with 256mb each. Trouble
was, that wasn't enough. We needed more than 256 and try as we might --- couldn't make it fit.
So the memory got taken up, moved to "swap" and then that got taken
up. No good came of this and the site slowed from a crawl to a stop.
We increased the memory on the application/web server to 512 and all
has been good for a while. Probably too much information, but there you go! Back to stable and
ready for the long haul.