This past two weeks have been a roller coaster ride from hell. At Smartphone Experts we’ve fallen victim to the plague of web traffic growth.
One of our servers started trashing under heavy load. Nothing worked to fix the problem.
- We added more ram
- Moved assets to a separate server
- Optimized queries
Still the trashing continued.
(roller coaster graph)
After installing xcache our graph looks like this:
now my life is back to normal — Thanks xcache