title: Notes on tuning Apache link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/notes-on-tuning-apache/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 4746 created: 2013/05/02 02:01:46 created_gmt: 2013/05/02 06:01:46 comment_status: closed post_name: notes-on-tuning-apache status: publish post_type: post

Notes on tuning Apache

This is starting out as just a list of articles to review. Stay tuned for actual examples. Tuning Apache for High Traffic 5 rules to optimize your server Apache with fcgid Apache Performance Tuning How to Tweak Apache for Maximum Load Beyond increasing MaxClients and MaximumRequestsPerChild, a key recommendation by all these sources is to set KeepAlive to On but use a really low value like 3 or even 2 for the KeepAliveTimeout. Another suggestion is to co-locate a nginx reverse proxy on the same server as Apache and proxy all traffic nginx to Apache. This is reminiscent of the old webmaster's trick of putting squid in front of Apache as a caching proxy server. How to handle 1000's of concurrent users Nginx configuration examples can be found in the Nginx Wiki. How To: Use Nginx as a Reverse Proxy. Of course in a LAMP stack the web server is just one part of the puzzle. Both php and the database server will also need tuning. Configuring MySQL for High Number of Connections per Second

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