By lon
Hi everyone,
I recently set up a new LAMP server for two moderately trafficked blogs in my content network. The performance so far has been great and my 1 gig server still has plenty of RAM and processing speed available.
This is the first time I’ve hosted a server on my own. The first 48 hours were smoother than I expected but I did have a MySQL database lockup that brought my sites down until I cycled the process.
So my question is - what kind of maintenance tasks should I be doing on the server? Should I set up a cron to restart my database and apache services or reboot the droplet on some regular basis? Any other maintenance tasks I should be doing beyond offsite backups to ensure reliability?
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Make sure you keep your server updated so that you’re up to date on all of the security patches. Also backup your files and databases. <br> <br>> Should I set up a cron to restart my database and apache services or reboot the droplet on some regular basis? <br> <br>No. If you have to do that, you’re doing it wrong. It should run flawlessly without having to restart any services.
The servers should take care of themselves if configured correctly. I would set up logwatch as it emails you every day details about whats happening on the server. <br> <br>Also consider something like OSSEC and/or ConfigServer CFS/LFD as they monitor connections and attempts to access the server. Also recommend doing security tweaks. <br> <br>Oh, and update using yum frequently.
On my 512Mb when doing some load testing, my MYSQL processes quit due to not having enough RAM. I’ve since set up a swap partition and have had no issues, so I would suggest that! :)
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