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My server just suffered a crash due to a very high CPU load. Upon a hard and a soft boot it went back to normal again.

Found out from 'top' that php-cgi was consuming exceptionally high loads when the home page of my custom theme was loaded. All other Wordpress sites that I'm hosting have not suffered from this problem.

This could be a theme specific problem so the safe bet for now is using the default theme. The header is in a mess I know and I'll fix that later when I have time.

[Edited: now using this modified K2 theme with my custom theme functions all commented out for the moment, these functions appear to be driving php-cgi crazy when they are loaded. The misery is that why all in a sudden this became a problem as I must have these functions in use for many months. Perhaps I need to revisit slice optimization again such as this one. ]

I ordered another slice to play with on 4 September. I attempted again to install LEMP which I did successfully. I think the LEMP server has been doing a good job and few days ago I also tried restoring a backup image to my first slice, swapped IP's between slices, all my sites are now running off my original first slice.

So the second slice is idling and I deleted it today. I have played with it and updated my LAMP howto, I couldn't find use of it now.

I guess if I have spare time after dinner I better spend more time on the black and write keyboard to ensure better sleep.

Got a little problem with Tinyau's Tag Cloud plugin after allowing the /user/cache/ folder to be writable. Now it's solved by clearing the old cache in that folder.

I have also moved Karen's and Because I Learn to this new LEMP server. During the WP WXR import I had to change post_max_size and memory_limit in addition to upload_max_filesize in /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini or else I'll get Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted error from WP.