I’ve been with DreamHost for 3 years, and up until 2 weeks ago loved it. I was moved to a VPS two weeks ago. I don’t have any popular websites. But one of my websites has a lot of pages, and robots were were hitting it hard so I put in a large crawl delay. Things then seemed OK and my memory usage averaged around 100. But a couple days ago Apache starting going down. I watch in “top” as my apache processes would say “” after them and then go away. I contacted support and they said that a 1 second spike above my memory limit would cause it to kill off my Apache processes, and the spike might not register on any graphs. I raised my memory by 100, and Apache stayed up the rest of the day, but went down overnight.
I don’t know what to do now. I’m not making any money off my websites (at least not yet) so I don’t want to be spending lots of money on this VPS I never asked to be on. I can’t be constantly checking to see if my websites are up either. Is there something I can do to get Apache to not be killed or at least come back up by itself after?