Overloaded Dedicated Server

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hello, recently i got a dedicated server for the first time. it is from one of the well known hosting companies. my server keeps getting overloaded and shuts down everyday. i have four big sites (100,000) pages on it, each on wordpress. each post has an embedded youtube video on it. i think that is what is overloading the server. i am looking to find out if there is a way to optimize the site better. i have wp super cache installed. the sites are not even getting that much traffic yet, maybe 100 - 200 visitors a day.
 


Either your code is seriously fucked up somewhere, your dedicated server is a 386, or this is some kind of xrummer setup post.
 
Start first in reviewing your plugins. Remove all inactive plugins and inactive themes, then look at removing all plugins in all installations unless you absolutely need them.

Likewise, look for plugins that do double or triple duty, so you can further reduce the number of plugins you have running to as few as possible.
 
Tune Apache and MYSQL. Run MYTOP and see if you have any poorly optimized queries continually hitting the database. I bet it is this. Some crap SQL query that is not scaling.

From there you will be able to pinpoint the issue.
 
YouTube videos use bandwidth from YouTube servers and are rendered locally on the users machine. WP is not as stressful as you think, meaning you have some plugin or other problem with your server.
 
Your server might be getting overloaded. Try upgrading your server. Also make sure to review your plugins and optimized your database.
 
Try installing w3 total cache with a memcached or APC backend for the page and object cache... it works wonders.
Alternatively try putting Varnish in front of it...
 
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