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[Gary C]

Could you tell me the server capicity requirements to run Pagelines. My VPS crashed for the 2nd time this week after sending a Tweet out to my Twitter followers. My VPS has the following:

• » 75 GB Disk Storage
• » 2 TB Bandwidth Transfer
• » 880 MB RAM
  
  I'm running the following plugins:
  
  All in One SEO Pack
  Contact Form 7
  Facebook Comments by Fat Panda
  Google Analyticator
  Googlefonts
  Google XML Sitemaps
  Pagelines Sections
  Regenerate Thumbnails
  Shareaholic | email, bookmark, share buttons

[Danny]

Hi,

PageLines doesn't require a VPS to run smoothly, if your VPS is crashing, this is most likely caused by a setup problem/error. I recommend you disable all plugins and see if the crashing persists. If it does, then you will need to contact your host and ask them for assistance.

[Simon_P]

you could offload images/js/css to a CDN, that would cut your HTTP requests by about 2 thirds. Also enable css filemode in the framework:
define( 'LESS_FILE_MODE', true );

Unfortunately you opted to use cpanel with a low memory VPS, so your kinda restricted to start with.

[Gary C]

The server crashed according to my hosting company because of a spike in page requests after I sent a Tweet out and the resulting requests on the server.

Danny - Thanks for your feedback.

Simon - Offload images/js/css to a CDN? Where would I go to enable the css filemode? Also, what would you recommend as a safe memory limit to prevent this from happening again?

[Simon_P]

add that like to wp-config.php

Memory limit isn't the problem, your VPS has low memory to start with and when you get a lot of traffic the OS will start to use SWAP, and when that runs out it will lockup and reboot.

Server optimisation is an art and there is a LOT of resources and tutorials out there, including the cpanel forums.
All depends on how you have configured PHP/Apache. Also tuning mySQL for a low memory system may help.
Consider using wordpress super cache