server load

Block Search Engine Traffic Overload – Yahoo, CUIL & Baidu

Written on January 29, 2010 by Fili

Although they bring in very little traffic, the crawl rate for some of the smaller search engines can create a huge load on a website server and even bring down a site. For some reason, Yahoo, CUIL and Baidu are among the worst of the search engines, hammering Continue Reading →

Troubleshoot Server Load and Optimize Server Speed for Drupal-Wordpress in VPS-DS

Written on June 26, 2009 by Fili

Following a query from a colleague, a few quick tips on troubleshooting and optimizing a slow overloaded VPS/DS hosting a Drupal site based on some of my experiences.   Apache Note - I run my VPSs-DSs with Hostforweb and VPS.NET (aff). Both should be able Continue Reading →