Apache Webserver security and optimization tips

Question

I\'m about to deal with managing and running my first Internet connected Apache webserver and I was wondering if there are any sys admins and developers out there that would lik

Answer 1

If you're running a standard LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/PEARL/PYTHON) environment: Put MySQL on another machine than Apache. Will be a little slower with only a few concurrent processes (due to network latency), but will be MUCH faster with many concurrent processes.