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find out server's crash causes

Asked by ssardella in WordPress, Apache Web Server, Linux

Tags: linux, wordpress, centos, crash

I am running a wordpress blog on a dedicated server. The blog has now between 20.000/25.000 visitors a day and I keep having problems as the server randomly crashes. I have looked at the apache error.log but I really didn't find any particular problem.

Is there a way to better analyze the server's health? How can i optimize my server the best way to work efficently with wordpress with that number of visits? Some time ago I used a mysql optimization tool to optimize the db but the server kept crashing therefore I removed all my "improvements" as I think the problem comes from the site itself. Possibly scripts or apache standard configuration. Is there a script/application or way to find our what's messing up my server?

Server details:
Dell Poweredge 2950 III
Quad-Core Xeon E5405 2.0GHz/2x6MB 1333FSB
4GB 667MHz FBD (4x1GB dual rank DIMMs)
2 X 160GB SATA2 (7,200rpm) (RAID 1 configuration)
OS: Centos 5
Control Panel: ISPCONFIG

Thanks guys for the help.

Stefano
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