On 19 October 2012 22:43, OQ <overlordq(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> What we've done: Trent's rented a couple
more small (512MB) Linodes to
> experiment with, and put Squid on them. And we've abandoned page
> counts, to slight angst from the users. So far, just running what we
> can through a Squid has done *wonders* for the main server. w00t! Now
> to see how our next burst of popularity goes ...
If you're already using FastCGI, go ahead and drop
apache in favor of
nginx/lighthttpd or something similar. Unless there's some reason you
absolutely need to stay with apache, less resource intensive
alternatives are out there.
rationalwiki.org is still on libphp5, the other wikis are on FastCGI.
The server setup is sufficiently crufty that I'm reluctant to mess
with stuff unless necessary, and swapping out Apache definitely counts
as messing ... but now I'm not worrying as much about the server
melting, I can think about making everything saner. Then a lighter
server might be worthwhile. Is there any particular reason WMF's
stayed with Apache?
- d.