Thank you to everyone who replied. I talked with a Drupal sys admin and he told me to make three changes:

1) FastCGI 2) Up the memached cache to 96m 3) xcache.

I did not change to FastCGI. Only tried #2 and #3. On a vps with 2 cores and 4G RAM, page loads went from a minute to a second. I was very impressed.

Thanks for everyone's feedback!!

On 2014-12-15 14:05, Jamie Booth wrote:

My personal experience is that fast cgi is much faster I've used in fairly big traffic sites, even a Godaddy one which runs php as fastcgi. There are a number of items that you cant use with fastcgi which promotes it's speed. For example, you can't use "upload progress". Other items you cannot use also promote to it's potential speed gains depending on site-resource needs.

_Jamie Booth_

On 12/15/2014 01:34 PM, Keith Smith wrote:

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Hi,

Any thoughts on FastCGI being less resource intensive than mod_php?

Any reason not to use FastCGI on a server running a moderately large

Drupal website with a decent amount of page views?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Keith