Server Performance Issues & SFTP Support <div style="color: #000080; padding: 2px;">Server Performance Issues & SFTP Support</div><div style="font-size: .9em; margin-bottom: 12px; border-bottom: 1px solid #000080; padding: 2px; border-top: 1px solid #000080;">Saturday, January 17, 2004 by Kevin Stange</div><div style="font-size: 1em;">Due to markedly increased load on our web server during peak hours, the server's responsiveness has slowed down quite a bit. We are currently planning to roll out a new web server in the near future which will allow us to divide the load we've got between the two machines. Right now the main problem is system memory and we're out of it. Using the swapfile for running apache processes is not good. I'll keep you posted as we move closer to the upgrade. On to the other news: I hacked around for a while on the web server to be able to offer you a Secure version of FTP even though shell access is disabled. Normally, users with shell access can access SFTP with no problem, but users without shells cannot. I have worked around this problem and everyone can now use SFTP to encrypt their entire FTP session. SFTP requires special clients. WS_FTP LE does not support it, however WinSCP does and has a similar interface. If you know of any other clients, let me know and I'll list them here.</div>
