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Hello experts, Need a suggestion about Web production environment.

I am a Linux Admin, we are running Websites IBNLive - News | India News | World News | Latest News | Breaking News | Latest Headlines (news channel site). On Saturday Election Counting were going, on that day we running site on 12 servers VPS each having 8GB RAM and 4 CPU. All web servers are load balanced By Netscaler machine.

Problem is, our got lot load just in a min. about 50-150 and keeps increasing if we do not restart apache server.

Our Codeing (PHP) persons are running Ajax for displaying data. Data is retrieving by XML.

We have lot of traffic.

So my question is, Is XML is the way to achieve this task or use HTML for displaying data.

As our primary data source is in XML form.

Pl. let me know if u need more information from my side.

Regards
Manish Singh

XML is used with ajax. However, there are few things you can do to speed up and avoid restarting problem. First, you need to tune Apache for high traffic website. If that is not possible increase webservers. Another option is use lightweight server such as lighttpd or nginx . Most hight traffic use lighttpd or nginx and proxy out backend using FastCGI. Another option is to install revers proxy infront of all apache servers.

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we were already running 12 Apache web servers and they are load-balanced through a Hardware Load-balancer (Netscaler). So revers proxy can be done?

Is XML is better solution? Is there any other light method we can do to achieve the same.. ?