IndieAgora

I noticed that the website was acting very laggy lately. Sometimes pages would just hang, videos would never load to play and sometimes there was a total server failure to respond. I noticed my server was maxxing out with CPU usage too so I decided to investigate.

It turned out to be something to do with nginx, which is basically the engine of the server that provides files to users while balancing the load through various proxies. Basically it stops the server getting overloaded when multiple users visit the site and view content on it.

There was a severe bottleneck in the settings that was only allowing up to 1GB of data to be served at any given time so it was maxxing out and causing the server to be unresponsive. I have changed the soft limit to a much higher number, around 64GB.

After these changes the webpages seemed to respond properly. Let me know if you have been experiencing these problems or if the problem persists.

I experienced the issues, but everything seems to be fine currently. The issues were going on for me until a few hours ago, and from yesterday or the whole day, I took some screenshots of some minor weird things that I saw during that time like failure to load screens and stuff in case it might help.