Help Optimizing My VPS

[piper]

I have been reading a lot on how to tweak httpd.conf. There are a lot of conflicting opinions. Some say turn this on, some say turn that off, etc. I have the Freedom Plan:

15,000 MB Disk Space
UNMETERED 1.5mbps Data Transfer
256 MB Guaranteed Ram
200 units Guaranteed CPU
Host Machine w/ Dual CPU
RAID10 Storage, 8 Gig RAM
Fully Burstable RAM and CPU

I am trying to get the most out of Apache. My sites are usually slow. I have a busy art site where I allow hotlinking. I have another site with a fair size forum, ~5,000 members, ~1x,000 posts. Those are my two major sites running on MySQL and PHP. I have some smaller sites, but traffic is very low on those sites.

I have CentOS intsalled with WHM/CPanel. What settings are best for my httpd.conf?

Is this good?

Timeout 50
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 120
KeepAliveTimeout 10
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 20
StartServers 16
MaxClients 125
MaxRequestsPerChild 5000

[Eric]

Is this good?

Timeout 50
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 120
KeepAliveTimeout 10
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 20
StartServers 16
MaxClients 125
MaxRequestsPerChild 5000

That looks like a decent setup. I would raise the Timeout to at least 100 just to be safe and you could lower KeepAliveTimeout to say 5 if your server is fairly active. I might also change MaxClients to 250.

[piper]

Cool, thanks.