Speed up server serving?

eric2006

eric2006

iMovie Professional
Sorry if this is the wrong area.. I was not sure if this goes in OS X Server, Networking, or just plain Mac OS X..

Anyways, Is there any way to speed up the server part of the regular Mac OS X, like allot more RAM or processor? I have a broadband internet connection that was tested to be faster than a T1 connection.. so that not the problem. I can load pages a LOT faster than I can serve them.
 
eric2006 said:
Sorry if this is the wrong area.. I was not sure if this goes in OS X Server, Networking, or just plain Mac OS X..

Anyways, Is there any way to speed up the server part of the regular Mac OS X, like allot more RAM or processor? I have a broadband internet connection that was tested to be faster than a T1 connection.. so that not the problem. I can load pages a LOT faster than I can serve them.
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Broadband connections are often faster than T1 connections for the DOWNLOAD but much slower than the UPLOAD. Also, broadband connections are optimized for downloading on the DNS level and with acceleration caches. There's a reason T1's are expensive, still. You don't get something for nothing, you know.
 
Even when I run from localhost, it's slow. I am running moodle, so it might just be that my computer is not up to serving these customized php pages..
 
Try this out, goto termianl and do a sudo bash and type your password, and then edit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and chnage the following lines from

MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 5
StartServers 1

to

MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5

this should make your webpages serve alot faster. apple limited the apache defaults, I guess because it doesnt hog all your RAM..

Hope this helps
 
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