Monitoring and Tuning Your Server

Short-Term Problems and Temporary Fixes

If you expect a large spike in traffic on a particular page or set of pages, you can always change that page or set it to static HTML for a few days. This may involve some redesign, but the effort may prove worthwhile. When many thousands of people traverse three or four scripted pages to get to a particular download page during a short period, for example, your server is using a lot more resources than it really needs to. You could, instead, provide a static front page with simple navigation, on a temporary basis, and save yourself and your users a lot of headaches.