Today(or yesterday now), I spent like 10 hours trying to figure out why my web server kept going down.
Well, I did upgrade to Lighttpd couple months back, which is much better web server than Apache. (YouTube runs on Lighttpd btw.)
One of the problems I encountered even with the latest version of Lighttpd is “memory leak”.
For server with light traffic, this memory leak isn’t too awful as it can take a year or so before you need to reboot your web server.
But for high-trafficked web sites this one (which gets good 28K pageviews on a high day), the memory leak proved to be fatal as it took about a period of 24 hours before memory would all be used up. Especially since our web traffic has been rather going out of control lately. Yes, it’s a good thing and a bad thing since I can’t blog while I am fixing it.
Well, I have always heard that Nginx web server, which is now used on WordPress.com, has no memory leak. Btw, Nginx is a web server developed by a Russian guy named Igor, a really good/fast server.
So I spend the WHOLE DAY trying to make Nginx web server work on Zedomax.com.
The mod rewrite stuff was the hardest to implement but gladly, I got it done.
So we will see in about a day, see if Nginx has no memory leak. So far, it seems a whole lot better than Lighttpd. We will see…
Anyways, more blog posts coming soon after I recover from continuous web server hacking.
Also, I should have a detailed Nginx install guide for WordPress and MediaWiki.
Dang it, I missed a whole day of blogging! Oh well, you guys will live…
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