Hello,

Looking at the webserver of PerlMonks it appears to be too old? Apache/1.3.29 while the newest 1.3 version is 1.3.42 which fixes some memory corruption and other security issues Apache 1.3 Change Log so upgrading it might help?

Another thing that I've noticed which if fixed will improve the speed and lower the load significantly (PerlMonks currently doesn't gzip its contents, So enabling mod_gzip on Apache and gzipping text/html, text/javascript and other text types will make page loads faster which in turn will lower the server load and save some traffic).

Hopes you'll consider my suggestion, As enabling gzip won't take much time, like 10 minutes only ...but as for upgrading Apache it will have to be scheduled for later time.

Update: I'm getting too many -- for this ... Anyway implement it and if it turns out to be a bad idea or making things worse I'll pay a $50 USD administration fee for the time wasted by the system admin who's implementing it and removing it.

In reply to Enhancing Speed by ahmad

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.