Title: Server Tuning
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Server Tuning

 *  [southbeach030](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southbeach030/)
 * (@southbeach030)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-tuning/)
 * Hello everyone. I’d like to tap the expertise of the more seasoned WordPress 
   developers here. I’m experiencing heavy server load, and have run out of answers.
 * First, let me explain what I’m on:
    - – Dedicated server, Dual Xeon 2.8ghz, 2gb ram, 2×80 SATA
    -  – Apache 1.3.37, PHP 4.4.4 and MySQL 4.1.21-standard
 * Here’s what I’ve attempted to do to make the server run more efficiently.
    - – Tweaked the MySQL (my.cnf) settings as much as I possibly can
    -  – Added eAccelerator / Zend Optimizer to the server
    -  – Tweaked Apache as best as I could
 * Site Traffic is about 15,000 visitors and 50,000 pageviews a day. About 1500 
   comments per week, and about 30-40 new posts a week.
 * My webhost is unwilling to help me any further, as the site slows to a crawl 
   at peak times.
 * I have tried wp-cache and it seems to break my site.
 * Here’s what my host said to me:
 * _“You simply have an *extreme* number of database connections on the server. 
   Tweaking the MySQL global configuration isn’t going to help anything here, you
   need to check the code running these queries on the site and make sure those 
   are efficient.”_
 * And when I asked for their help, they responded:
    _ “The server will need to 
   be tuned on your end. We will not be able to assist you on our side as this is
   beyond our scope of support.”
    1. Has anyone had a similar experience and can share their results?
    2. Are there wordpress/server consultants that can dig deep into my installation
       to further determine ways to “digg-proof” my site. I’ve tried nearly everything.
 * Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
 * Thank you in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [southbeach030](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southbeach030/)
 * (@southbeach030)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-tuning/#post-553373)
 * I’d like to further add that my host gave me this information.
 * Is this something I can do myself and investigate within wordpress? Are there
   any plugins that help close SQL connections anywhere?
 * _
    I have seen a number of cases recently where the MySQL code was not properly
   closed which resulted in too many MySQL connections remaining open. You will 
   want to check the code to ensure that not only does it close the MySQL connection,
   but that it also clears the RAM from the connection:
 * #connect to mysql
    $link = mysql_connect(‘localhost’, ‘database_user’, ‘database_password’);
 * #run query
    $sqlString = “(SELECT variable1, varable2, … and so on $result = 
   mysql_query($sqlString);
 * #cleanup memory
    mysql_free_result($result);
 * #close mysql connection
    mysql_close($link);
 *  [emromanowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emromanowski/)
 * (@emromanowski)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-tuning/#post-553800)
 * I’m coming across this problem myself. Did you ever get this resolved?

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## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)
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 * [server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server/)
 * [tuning](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tuning/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [emromanowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emromanowski/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-tuning/#post-553800)
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