My server is crashing, I think its due to traffic but I am not sure how to tell

marcinozga

@IRJ said:

I had another crash at 2:53PM. Is there anything I can do to find out what happened?

Look into web server and database logs.

IRJ

The site is still down. Should I reboot?

marcinozga

@IRJ said:

The site is still down. Should I reboot?

Entire server? Why?

IRJ

Rebooting is what fixes the db connection

stacksofplates

What do you get if you type uptime? More curious about the 10 and 15 min load average.

marcinozga

@IRJ Just restart database and webserver services. Most likely we server alone should be enough.

marcinozga

And install that caching plugin. Seriously.

Alex Sage

Dude, it's the RAM! Go to 2GB.....

IRJ

@johnhooks said:

What do you get if you type uptime? More curious about the 10 and 15 min load average.

I rebooted so It looks like it cleared the uptime info

Alex Sage

@IRJ said:

Look at your RAM going up and up and up.....

Alex Sage

@IRJ said:

Do you have a chart like this for memory usage?

IRJ

@anonymous said:

@IRJ said:

Do you have a chart like this for memory usage?

No unfortunately

Alex Sage

@IRJ I have run Web Servers on DO before, you need to 2GB at the least unless you use something like Cloudways that has Nginx, Varnish, Memcached, etc.

Alex Sage

Here is the nice graph Cloudways gives you.....

IRJ

I upgraded to 2GB of RAM and we are seeing more traffic. No crashes so far.

marcinozga

I just had a look at it again, and you have 22 css files. That's insane, that's what's killing your web server. You have total of 156 requests on each visit. Look for a plugin that will aggregate css and js files.

scottalanmiller

Wow, that's a lot of CSS!

IRJ

Here are some of cloudflare settings and stats

marcinozga

Minification is not aggregation. It is useful, and I'd always do minification, but aggregation gives you so much more.