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by jonathanmd 4407 days ago
It could just be the 3.1 MB image getting served from Apache. 3888 × 2592 might be a tiny bit too large for a preview image.

They should take a look at mod_pagespeed (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module) and start using a CDN.

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Well, that costs bandwith, but wasn't the issue.

The issue was the cpu power. The VPS hadn't got enough cpu time for fullfilling all these requests. The machine reportet 8 cores, but load didn't cross the 4 - mark. Memory is 4GB, but that was more then enough.

On the top list you were able to clearly verify the php processes running and trying to fullfill the request.

We swapped to my provider http://net-build.net , which has a good performance.

thanks for the hint anyway. I think David already exchanged it.

Matthias