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Ask Slashdot: Optimizing Apache/MySQL for a Production Environment

Posted by Cliff on from the tweak-it-till-it-bleeds dept.

treilly asks: "In the coming weeks, the startup company I work for will be rolling out a couple of Linux boxes as production webservers running Apache and MySQL. Management was quick to realize the benefits of Linux, but I was recently asked: "Now that we're rolling out these servers, how do we optimize out of the box RedHat 6.0 machines as high performance web and database servers in a hosting environment"?

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  1. Here's how I handle several million hits per day.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    Basically, I just winged it. My site started out with maybe ten thousand hits per day, but quickly (over the course of two years) ramped up to about 5 million hits a day. I just hacked together some Perl scripts, and when I need to make changes, I just try 'em out on the production server. Who needs beta testing? If there are performance problems, I just buy faster hardware. If there are stability problems, people are understanding, after all, I *am* using Linux.

    Sincerely,

    Rob Malda