title: Assistance optimizing server with high-traffic
body: <p>I am in need of some help. Currently, I have the following package:</p>
  
  <p>2048 MB
  80gb RAID 10 Disk Space
  4x CPU Priority
  5000 GB bandwidth
  CentOS</p>
  
  <p>(VPS-4)
  <a href="http://www.knownhost.com/vps_packages.html" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.knownhost.com/vps_packages.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.knownhost.com/vps_packages.html</a></a></p>
  
  <p>My VPS has been receiving a lot of traffic. It had 1 million page views on one day, even!</p>
  
  <p>As cool as that is, we have been plagued with problems ever since the dramatic rise in hits.</p>
  
  <p>We were using SuPHP at first, which was getting resource-intensive. The server would go down every couple of days and we would receive automated emails about excessive processes running.</p>
  
  <p>We then switched to FastCGI. This has been running great and we stopped getting those emails. However, during peak time, if there are a lot of people connected, then web pages wont show. You will have to refresh the page a couple of times to get it to show (sounds as if all connection slots are held up).</p>
  
  <p>We are currently using NGINX + Apache w/ CPANEL + eAccelerator + FastCGI on this server.</p>
  
  <p>Ignoring the current setup configuration and keeping in mind the hardware we are using, do you guys have any suggested configuration that may be best at supporting all these hits?</p>
  
  <p>Please keep in mind that the large amount of hits occurs one ONE page (don't ask!). The page has barely any PHP on it (but is partially dynamic so the PHP is needed) and doesn't even connect to a database.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you very much.</p>