[jacques_chester]

In my opinion (given my superficial understanding of the prior situation), your problem was Apache + mod_php. The default settings for that combination are to chew memory until the bad people go away.

Out of curiousity, why middleman when you're already using Jekyll/Octopress?

(My dog in the static site generator fight is Nanoc, fwiw).

[tahoecoder]

My main site, AppRaptor, isn't on octopress. Just this blog. I agree with you 100% that the problem was apache + mod_php. Nginx would have probably been better. I decided to try out this s3 + cloudfront solution instead, though. I'll take a look at nanoc. Thanks for the info.

[jacques_chester]

Nanoc is hard to get used to but as far as I'm concerned it's a bucket filled with magic.