How To Optimize VPS Server For Peak Performance? Print

Virtual Private Servers are highly sought after by website owners and web admins. This is essentially due to the availability of dedicated resources in a private environment that allows you to install any software without impacting any other website that operates on the same node. 

VPS hosting can help you run your applications without any hassles only if you are able to guarantee the availability of sufficient memory and other vital resources needed by your website. Failure to do so will cause your website to slow down or even lead to events of downtime. 

The most important consideration for optimization of VPS server is to get rid of unwanted applications that may be running in the background. These are not only responsible to consume RAM and CPU cycles but are also squatting on your Hard Drive space. 

In order to optimize Apache modules on Linux VPS, make sure that these are loading dynamically. Static applications remain in use constantly and eventually need more space and resources. You can save considerable RAM with help of dynamic applications, which will require resources only when these applications are required to run.

Defragmentation of all drives an essential aspect of improving disk I/O. This needs to be executed on regular basis. Removal of indexing service and use of application templates are additional aspects to achieve greater optimization of VPS server. 

One must make sure that performance of Apache is optimized by removing any element, which is not being used. These elements can be enabled again in the event of their requirement in future. This also highlights need to disable Apache logs to gain more RAM as well as disk space. 

Modification of configuration files is an important task to be performed after installation of add-ons. This also underlines need to modify other files for maximum performance.