Apache server keeps crashing, “caught SIGTERM, shutting down”

SIGTERM is used to restart Apache (provided that it’s setup in init to auto-restart): http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html The entries you see in the logs are almost certainly there because your provider used SIGTERM for that purpose. If it’s truly crashing, not even serving static content, then that sounds like some sort of a thread/connection exhaustion issue. Perhaps … Read more