apache+winxp+lots of connections = server not responding ???
I need help on this guys, hope someone has a solution for this problem, it took me quite long to configure and tune my own home-made server and now it is not working well
First of all I know that I should not try to use a cable connection to run my own host, I shoud buy it from a professional company and all that use to hear in this forum
, but according to my provider TOS It's ok to run a webserver and I feel better controlling everything, its great My connection is 1000 down / 600 up cablemodem connected via ethernet. My server is a windows xp professional, apache 49, php, mysql, activestate perl... and so on.
Everything has been working fine for 2 weeks, serving a site that has about 1000 visits/day. Today I moved a bigger site to the server, with about 5000 visits per day or more. The problem came some hour later, on the higer demand hour for the site (about 50-100 visits each 15 minutes or so).
The server ran well, cpu usage was low, bandwidth was more than enough, and suddenly, the sites stoped responding, any requesto of a page give tiemouts, like if there was no server runing, when in fact it is. I can connect to it through remote desktop and apache is running, but not serving pages.
An apache restart solves the problem, but its the second time this afternoon I need to restart it...
Does anyone know what happens and how can I solve it??
Thanks so much in advance.
