Recommended High Traffic Setup or I am killing my server

My AllHeadlineNews.com site is starting to grow in an organic sort of way and I am afraid that I am going to grow beyond the Dual processor box that I am on.

Right now I am seeing occassional loads in the 8.0 to 9.0 range with server usually running in the .75 to 1.0 range 80% of the time. It's got 2GB RAM and it's using 70-80% of that and it's not swapping.

I am thinking about running some sort of load balancing system with dedicated server just for the mysql database but I am not sure that I can set this sort of thing up on EV1 so I am starting to shop for another dedicated or colo provider.

Any recommendations or advice? Is it time to move this to another provider that can handle some custom setups? I can handle most routine sysadmin functions but the more advanced setups have me a bit perplexed.

Jeff

 

 

 

 

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