I currently have a server with 1 gig ram and pentium 4 processor 2.0.

On certain days, I have 500+ people on my site and it tends to start lagging a little bit, I was wondering if there is any way to help speed it up a little. Before someone mentioned adding another ip address, right now the site that gets all these hits has its own ip though. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Emma

An extra IP won't help at all. An extra server with load balancing might.

We need to know more about the high-traffic area of your site that's getting all this usage....

Is it image intensive? If so, bandwidth might be an issue. If you're on a 10mbps unmetered server, your site will definitely slow down when you approach hitting that 10mbps wall. Even the metered servers can only burst to 100mbps at any second.

Is it database intensive? If so, then your processor might be hitting its limit. If so, you can revise the database code, move your most popular pages to static pages, or get a second server to handle some of your more processor-intense areas.

Based on the questions LC just posed, some hdparm tweaks might bear looking into (assuming they aren't already applied).

Look into caching, both in MySQL and Apache. It helps on output that is not unique for every request. Other than that, get another server to run just MySQL( for instance ) .

alan

try installing turck mm-cache

what type of site do you have? forums? weblog?

they're forums. Vbulletin.

Where can I find turck mm-cache?

Is your ram maxed out, also? What OS is on your box? What about caching mysql? Offloading mysql to another box...like a celery or something like that and just dedicate it to mysql.

my ram is still in good shape. How might I go about caching the mysql? B/c that is taking the majority of the cpu usage.

Emma

thereios thread in the forums dedicated to turck mmcache installing

look for it with tthe search feature

Turck MMCache install howto is here.