Rich_by_the_Bay
Moderator Emeritus
Uh oh. Slow and a few time-outs this evening for me, too.
I went with lighttpd because a guy I was working with was telling me about it's scaling capability. You can set it up to have seperate php processing machines effectively making an application layer. That way when you need more power you can just add a machine optimized to process php. I thought I was going to utilize that feature but it just gets too complex. The switch to Apache is going to happen around the middle of February. I will keep monitoring the servers and see if we can keep things running as well as possible until then.
Do we have any php developers, database admin or other technical members? I am always looking for good people, it's seems that every programmer I know is gainfully employed and do not have any free time for moonlighting.
I think the 500 errors are happening when a php fastcgi process uses up all the RAM that's allocated to it, it then locks up and stops processing the php script. The web server stays running but throws out the error.
memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)