Three things for sure in this world
Three things are for sure: death, taxes, and people want to take your money for nothing. My sites are hosted on a dedicated server with GoDaddy. This is a general warning: GoDaddy (and I’m sure most hosting companies) suck. All they want to do is take your money. No matter what they tell you, service is terrible.
My websites this past week started crashing – not any normal crash – only the databases failed to connect. So I email GoDaddy support, and they replied:
…it appears the amount of traffic you are receiving … exceeding the configuration settings of your web server. There is a “Max Clients” setting within Apache, and the traffic to your website is exceeding this. … We can raise this setting …. fee of $100 to your account. If you wish …. respond to this message with the last 4 digits of a credit card…
First of all — $100 to change something so simple? Anyone have problems with this, send me an email and I’ll do it for a quarter… literally… 25 cents. Secondly, MaxClients default is 10?? Whats wrong with these people? They set settings so ridiculously low, so when you have a problem they’ll charge you serious money to change it. (All the settings below were set low)
If anyone has these problems, go to your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and change the following settings to the numbers below:
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 150
KeepAliveTimeout 5
MinSpareServers 20
MaxSpareServers 40
StartServers 15
MaxClients 100
MaxRequestsPerChild 75
This will give your servers some descent performance – play with these values, see what works best. Google the definition of each.
November 11th, 2005 at 3:42 am
Man,
Agree with you for Three things for sure in this world
You hit the nail on the head for that.
What kind of joke they made about the MaxClient default.
Just swicth to other hosting. It’s a lost cause.
November 12th, 2005 at 12:15 am
For sure, I’m just waiting for my year to end, and i’m moving.
Definite lost cause.
November 17th, 2005 at 11:52 am
I have the same problem and some customer out of service because they can not access the webmail and I don’t know how to edit the conf file. I looked for it with FTP but I can not get to it. then I telnet and found it but again I don’t know how to.
Can someone help me find instruccions?
Thanks
Jose
November 18th, 2005 at 12:46 am
Hi Jose,
I’m not sure how your logging in, but you need to be the root.
When you first got your account, they gave you a username “root” and you had your password.
Your going to have to SSH into your server, once inside type “su root”, then type in your root password. At this point, you can go to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and modify the settings.
Good luck,
George
December 22nd, 2005 at 2:31 pm
that was just bloomin brilliant
same host … same problem
I changed the settings to the ones you have sugested and what a difference
Thanks so much for posting this info
cheers
Scott
December 22nd, 2005 at 4:45 pm
thx mate something so simple, appreciate your time, MERRY XMAS. and you to kiweed. lol the places you pop up
January 19th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
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