I'm wondering if someone can offer some advice here. I recently moved to a dedicated server and it has been crashing right and left. Two or three times each week it goes down completely for an hour or more, and MySQL has had multiple extended (10+ hour long) outages over a 2-3 week period. This strikes me as being completely outrageous, but my web host appears nonplussed. I'm trying to figure out who's to blame. Did they screw up configuring the server, or did I not purchase a powerful enough server in the first place?
Here are the specs:
Pentium IV 1.6 GHz
256MB DDR ECC RAM
30 GB IDE boot drive
60 GB IDE backup drive
75 GB bandwidth per month
Debian Linux
I get a decent amount of traffic - perhaps 250,000 page views per month. A large majority of that traffic consists of hits to page.cgi in a dynamic LinksSQL installation running under mod_rewrite. (I know I should build static pages, but that just isn't a good option at this time.)
So... Do I need a better server? Or am I getting screwed by the hosting company? Thanks.
Fractured Atlas :: Liberate the Artist
Services: Healthcare, Fiscal Sponsorship, Marketing, Education, The Emerging Artists Fund
Here are the specs:
Pentium IV 1.6 GHz
256MB DDR ECC RAM
30 GB IDE boot drive
60 GB IDE backup drive
75 GB bandwidth per month
Debian Linux
I get a decent amount of traffic - perhaps 250,000 page views per month. A large majority of that traffic consists of hits to page.cgi in a dynamic LinksSQL installation running under mod_rewrite. (I know I should build static pages, but that just isn't a good option at this time.)
So... Do I need a better server? Or am I getting screwed by the hosting company? Thanks.
Fractured Atlas :: Liberate the Artist
Services: Healthcare, Fiscal Sponsorship, Marketing, Education, The Emerging Artists Fund