It should be back up and running soon. You'd think 1GB of RAM would be enough to handle a few thousand hits to serve a static page.

EDIT: The server is still having issues.

Hello, fellow Apache user! You may wish to look into Nginx. My Japanese toilet seat practically has enough memory on it to serve all my business needs.

One of these days I have to migrate all of my Apache-hosted Wordpress blogs to Nginx.

" You may wish to look into Nginx"

I second this. For years I tried to tame the beast that is Apache. After switching to nginx I could not be happier.

Yeah, nginx is my favorite web server as well. I use it for my startup, and I'm in the process of migrating all my blogs from a 1GB slice with Apache, to a 4GB server in the cloud with nginx. With that I should be ready for virtually any amount of traffic my tech site may get.

Apache default install sucks. install MPM worker or MPM event and it should fly.

Interestingly it's not a default installation. It's an installation that, in the past, I fine-tuned with great success. That said, it has been less than satisfactory over the past few weeks.

maybe you are running out of tcp connections