Recommended Optimization Software

[smoniz]

Browsed through the forums, and didn't see anything offhand, so sorry if this has already been posted. I am a complete newbie when it comes to VPS systems. I've optimized my wordpress theme, installed DB-Cache Reloaded & WP-SuperCache.

My memory usage right now hovers around 33%, but does spike (most likely when the cached files expire). Is there any software, or other tips I'm not thinking of that can help optimize my system? I'm already looking into getting a new theme that is cleaner, this particular one looks to be query extensive.

Thanks!
Shawn
www.wrestlingnewsarena.com

[smoniz]

Also as I google ways to help optimize the VPS server, I am seeing one common way is to modify the httpd.conf file with the following:

Timeout 200
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 200
KeepAliveTimeout 3
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 15
StartServers 5
MaxClients 20
MaxRequestsPerChild 2000
HostnameLookups Off

Would this also be a good recommendation?

[GatorDaveC]

If you have a site or two, then fastCGI might be a good idea to use on your VPS. You can also use PHP caching applications with it.

I wouldn't use those Apache settings you found. You can find most of the settings on the Apache site http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/mod/worker.html

If you aren't running cPanel, you could switch to another HTTP Daemon, such as lighttpd.

[cbcrs]

Switch apache MPM from prefork to worker, install FastCGI, and PHP APC.