My server is crashing, I think its due to traffic but I am not sure how to tell
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@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.
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The site is still down. Should I reboot?
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Rebooting is what fixes the db connection
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What do you get if you type uptime? More curious about the 10 and 15 min load average.
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@IRJ Just restart database and webserver services. Most likely we server alone should be enough.
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And install that caching plugin. Seriously.
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Dude, it's the RAM! Go to 2GB.....
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@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
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@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.
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Here is the nice graph Cloudways gives you.....
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I upgraded to 2GB of RAM and we are seeing more traffic. No crashes so far.
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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.
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Wow, that's a lot of CSS!
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Here are some of cloudflare settings and stats
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Minification is not aggregation. It is useful, and I'd always do minification, but aggregation gives you so much more.
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Here's how to do it with w3 total cache plugin: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-and-js-combine-not-supported
