By layneheiny
Hi,
I’m just learning how to optimize my droplet. Please feel free to provide advice, links, etc.
My droplet operates but varnishstat shows a hitrate average of zero. Cloudflare is showing over 6K+ unique visitors in the past four days. Top shows up to 50% or greater CPU usage every 1/2 hour. My reverse proxy is not working; that is, it shows 127.0.0.1 in XenForo … but I can use the WordPress plugin login attempts and click reverse proxy and get the correct IP. When the droplet is booting there is an red fail - but I don’t know how to read what is failing.
After optimizing mysql using mysqltuner.pl then the site pages load very quickly BUT after some time then the pages served are blank. A restart of apache2 fixes this temporarily.
These are installed.
Apache APC memcached mysql Nginx PHPMyAdmin Varnish
How do I check if varnish is even installed properly since varnishstat is showing zero? Should varnish be removed? Do you believe this is the culprit of the blank pages?
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What size is your droplet? I have a feeling programs are running out of memory and crashing. Check the error logs – do you see anything?
Thanks for the reply. I have the 4 core, 8 GB. After trying a bunch of different configurations, and messing things up, I’m recreating the droplet right now from an image but stepping it down to a 2 cores, 4 GB. <br> <br>Creating the droplet is taking a long time. Anyway - back to my questions - should varnish even be installed? It doesn’t seem to be working.
Varnish was not installed properly. Used sample VCL from http://serverfault.com/questions/372290/why-am-i-getting-a-low-cach-hit-rate-average-in-varnish <br> <br>Now varnishstat shows <br> <br>Hitrate ratio: 10 100 108 <br>Hitrate avg: 0.2350 0.2545 0.2550 <br>
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