Sysadmin 101: How can I figure out why my server crashes and monitor performance?
- by bflora
I have a Drupal-powered site that seems to have neverending performance problems. It was butt-slow about 5 months ago. I brought in some guys who installed nginx for anonymous visitors, ajaxified a few queries so they wouldn't fire during page load, and helped me find a few bottlenecks in the code.
For about a month, the site was significantly…