Hi,
I'm a web designer setting up a server for the first time using a very light Linode package with 1GB RAM and 1 CPU. It will host a Drupal site that gets low traffic. It's running Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4.7.
I'm following their set up guide here:
https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/hosting-a-website/ which suggests editing apache2.conf with the following:
<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 2
MinSpareServers 6
MaxSpareServers 12
MaxClients 80
MaxRequestsPerChild 3000
</IfModule>
When I couldn't find anything like that code in the .conf file I checked with Linode support and was told that, from Apache 2.4 "This section is built-in now and not included in the apache2.conf" but when I asked how then to optimize Apache for a light server a different support person got back to me and said I could just add that code to the end of the .conf file.
I'm posting here hoping a specialist can clear this up or advise an alternative way to optimise Apache for this kind of server.
Thanks,
Robin
