[_ck_]

I should point out that even your static.html serves up fairly slowly, though a little faster than the dynamic pages. Getting mysql caching may not be as big a boost as it hopefully should be. I can’t even see what your guaranteed VPS ram is.

If you are on a VPS there is usually a seperate VPS control panel that will also let you restart services, including mysql.

my setup lets me do a “service mysql restart” but that’s probably not universal. This is what I have in my.cnf

[mysqld]



# myisam-recover = BACKUP

# delay-key-write = ALL



max_connections = 400

key_buffer = 16M

myisam_sort_buffer_size = 32M

join_buffer_size = 1M

read_buffer_size = 1M

sort_buffer_size = 2M

table_cache = 1024

thread_cache_size = 286

interactive_timeout = 25

wait_timeout = 1000

connect_timeout = 10

max_allowed_packet = 16M

max_connect_errors = 10

query_cache_limit = 1M

query_cache_size = 16M

query_cache_type = 1

tmp_table_size = 16M

skip-innodb

old-passwords = 1

basedir = /var/lib/mysql

datadir = /var/lib/mysql

long_query_time = 1

log-slow-queries = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log

log-error = /var/log/mysql/mysqld.err



[mysqld_safe]

open_files_limit = 8192



[mysqldump]

quick

max_allowed_packet = 16M



[myisamchk]

key_buffer = 32M

sort_buffer = 32M

read_buffer = 16M

write_buffer = 16M