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Optimizing Apache for large concurrent requests and static files

OK, I know I'm asking a question that's been asked multiple times before (e.g. here - Serve millions of concurrent connections and static files?) but there appears to be no concrete solutions, so I ...
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Apache stops serving requests when connections increase [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Apache performance issue, after “1000 total children” Apache no longer responds to HTTP requests. Not MaxClients issue? The values for MaxClients, ...
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EC2 cost-effective webapp scaling

I have a webapp running in a Media Temple VPS account, and I'm currently evaluating the gains to switch to Amazon EC2. It's running under Apache 2 web server. This webapp for now has almost no access ...
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Why is static page response time going up with increased concurrent requests

I don't understand the performance I'm seeing from apache. I would expect that more concurrent apache requests would perform better than fewer, up to a point, but beyond 3 concurrent requests, overall ...
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Scalable Web Application Hardware Topology Best Practice

I'm working with an existing web application developed in Ruby with a MySQL back-end, but I think the generic hardware topology question will apply to a wide variety of server architectures. I'm ...
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Utilizing two servers (LAMP)

I currently have my web app on a single cloud server. Been doing this for a few months now and I have EVERYTHING on this instance (app, cron scripts, mysql, svn, dev environment, etc). The site is ...
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Run untrusted program from apache

I have a problem to which I already have an implemented solution, but I'm not sure whether it's the best one. In the interests of not biasing any possible responses, I won't say how I've chosen to ...
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Nginx vs Apache & mod_php for PHP and php+fpm vs fastcgi

It seems to be universally recommended to run Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Apache but there seems to be a devision in opinion on whether Apache + mod_php or Nginx are better for serving ...
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Optimize apache for 10K+ wordpress views a day on 2GB RAM E6500 CPU

I have a dedicated server with apache/php on ubuntu serving my Wordpress blog with about 10K+ pageviews a day. I have W3TC plug in installed with APC. But every now and then server stop responding or ...
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Apache on Windows in production environment? Why not?

"Everyone" know that Apache is for Linux/Unix and on Windows IIS is the way to go. However, I'm not a pro at Linux and it would be an enormous relief for me to use just the same setup in the ...
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How to make PHP more scalable on Unix Apache

I'm looking for free/low cost ways to make PHP running on our Unix Solaris servers (under Apache) more scalable and reliable. Do you recommend the free version of the Zend Server? Are there other ...
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How to configure reverse proxy/loadbalancer for custom routing

Suppose I have 3 webservers behind a reverse proxy/loadbalancer. Currently I use Apache 2 but don't mind switching. Those webservers are not equal. They have different sets of local data meaning that ...
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Does PHP *have* to serialize/unserialize session data between each HTTP request? Or is there a setting just to keep sessions in memory?

I think I understand why sessions are evil but for snappy client user experience I don't want to have to re-query the database on each HTTP request. (As a comparision, Java servlets can effortlessly ...
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What is optimal hardware configuration for heavy load LAMP application

I need to run Linux-Apache-PHP-MySQL application (Moodle e-learning platform) for a large number of concurrent users - I am aiming 5000 users. By concurrent I mean that 5000 people should be able to ...
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How to manage static content with dynamic

I have a lot of static pages, which include html files + js (SCORM packages). I have dynamic pages, also with JS which talks to the static pages JS. Static pages are being opened in an iframe, and we ...
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need advice on building a scalable architecture for moodle

I'm looking into designing an architecture for a moodle based education site, it will serve several thousand users at first but needs to be able to grow to support hundreds of thousands to millions of ...