apache load trouble

I could do with some advice about apache load problems. First my server kept completely freezing, requiring me to have a hard reboot as i couldn't even login via ssh. This was happening several times per day.
After looking at some other peoples post's in here i managed to narrow it down to apache. I also followed thier advice for other people on the best way to reduce the load, but i know that every server is different and whats best for thier server might not be best for mine, but at least then i managed to get about 12 hours without a freeze.

I run a bit torrent tracker and i know that would take up quite a bit of resources, but at the moment the tracker is far from busy without about 1500 peers. it recieves about 3-4000 hits per day. The spec of the server is as follows.

# AMD Sempron 2600+ Processor
# 512MB PC2700 DDR RAM
# 40GB Ultra133 Hard Disk Drive
# centos

this should be mpore than enough to handle what it is doing at the moment but i do know that if/when the tracker gets busy it will need to be upgraded.
Can someone please give me some advice on the best way to solve this please.

 

 

 

 

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