what is the main cause of 500 internal server error?

Question

I want to know that I have hosted with a hosting company . My website gives "500 Internal server error many times" I have following Web server statistics :-

Web Server Statistics
Successful requests: 127,310 (7,504)
Average successful requests per day: 814 (1,071)
Successful requests for pages: 24,949 (1,309)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 159 (186)
Failed requests: 3,499 (58)
Redirected requests: 10,091 (114)
Distinct files requested: 5,791 (556)
Distinct hosts served: 5,107 (330)
Data transferred: 4.28 gigabytes (190.56 megabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 28.03 megabytes (27.22 megabytes)

Can you tell me my server condition by seeing this or i have to give another details.

Thanks in advance

Maybe you should ask _"Is my hosting provider server powerful enough for described needs?"_. And then [define](http://serverfault.com/posts/440536/edit) those needs. — Sampo Sarrala - codidact.org, Oct 20 '12 at 16:36
depends what your site does? and what @Sampo said is a good indication your don't really know? — Riaan, Oct 20 '12 at 16:41
Are you an administrator on this server? Do you have console/command-line access or do you just administer your server through a control panel? — MDMarra, Oct 20 '12 at 16:47

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '12 at 16:46

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50 unique visitors per day is nothing. You could host that on a cell phone. The "power" of your server is most likely not the problem, though you haven't listed any specs. I suppose if it's running off of a Pentium I with 16MB of RAM you might have a hard time.

answered Oct 20 '12 at 16:46

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I was actually going to say the same thing about my phone. – mfinni Oct 20 '12 at 16:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '12 at 16:47

814 requests per day should be easy to serve unless you have a plugin or theme that is doing something really resource intensive. I would recommend using the "wp super cache" plugin because it will do full page caching and decrease the load your site is putting on the server significantly.

what is the main cause of 500 internal server error?

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