Webmaster Mike

Back in December I noticed problems with timeouts while trying to connect to our website. I could secure shell into the server with no problem. I ran top and noticed no processes running amok and CPU usage was low. There were some httpd Apache server processes running. I could also login to the Plesk control panel. Everything looked ok.

I opened a ticket with our host provider and found out that I needed to learn how to tune my Apache web server.

I regularly monitor my network and CPU usage. After running into performance problems with my Apache web server I decided to update the network statistics process I was using to try and catch performance problems before they happen.