[wp-hackers] APC-Nginx-Apache problems / memory problems

[Ian Douglas]

Hi Joe,

No, we don't have OpenX. Actually, I had not heard of it until now : /
Looks neat though. We need something like that, if not that, eventually.

best,
ian

On 29 Aug 2011, at 06:31, Joe Boydston wrote:

> Ian, I'm also running news websites, which reminds me... you aren't by chance running openX to server your ads on that same server are you? Your symptoms sound very similar to my early experiences.
> 
> Moving openX to a separate server was the single best thing we ever did. openX absolutely kills the database and memory on your server.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:37 PM, wp-hackers-request at lists.automattic.com wrote:
> 
>> We're a news site, so being down is more critical than perhaps for other sites.
>> 
>> In terms of revenues, it is negligible. We can't cover costs, if this is what you're asking. We have been builiding on volunteers. But we got to a certain prominence because of the Egyptian revoltution, and we want to continue and to expand. We redesigned the site in order to better attract and keep readers, and we need it stable and robust so we can attract advertisers and run plugins like Ad-Rotate.
>> 
>> Our traffic is about 600,000 pages served per month.
>> 
>> best,
>> ian
> 
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