Site News: VPS Upgraded Again to Handle Large Traffic.

From 10/Nov/2014 to 13/Nov/2014, I have noticed the Apache2 server is spawning quite a few processes that eat CPU and Memory. Although I have banned some IPs (e.g. angry spiders), but it does not help much.

I then, decided to upgrade again my VPS (Virtual Private Server), from 2 cores to 3 cores and from 1G RAM to 2G RAM. Now, I have 3 cores:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 23
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5440  @ 2.83GHz
stepping        : 6
microcode       : 0x1
cpu MHz         : 2826.278
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon nopl pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 x2apic hypervisor lahf_lm
bogomips        : 5652.55
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

After I reboot the VPS, it makes quite a huge difference. The system is now very smooth with the CPU usage hardly go over 50% and the load average is below 1.

VPS Upgrade Options 3 cores and 2G RAM

The problems that can be solved by money are not real problems at all. I will closely monitor the CPU/memory usage and make corresponding parameters tweaks if necessary.

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