The temporary fix would be to increase the memory limit.
I have to admit that I do not fully understand the problem, however the VPS is capping out the max memory that it is able to use at an OS level, rather than PHP itself running out of allocated memory. So would changing the PHP memory cap actually do anything to resolve this.
To be honest I have gone back to the host and said that, technical issues aside I am paying 5 times more for the VPS than I did for a basic shared hosting package, and everything suggests that the VPS underperforms when compared to the old shared host. Have a look at the attached image, which is from Google Analytics, everything to the left of the red line is from the shared host, everything to the right is the VPS. From this you can see that the cheap as chips shared host was handling more traffic without any issues.
There were two reasons for moving to VPS, primarily I intend to start promoting the site and therefore attract more traffic. On extremely busy days I would occasionally hit the hosts MySQL max concurrent connections limit (which was very low @ 15)
After a full on Google session I have found that everything I currently have on Cron is more or less exactly the same as 90% of other hosts out there. So I am at a loss.
I have a feeling that it might be time to introduce donations/subscriber system to the forum in order to pay for a decent hosting service. The community will love that
03-07-2008, 09:52 AM
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