I had this problem with my old VPS, and I am having it again with my
new VPS, so I think it must be something with my apache configuration.
My website: http://www.ipalaces.org sometimes won't load the correct
CSS files or sometimes will just skip completely certain files. You
can see this best in firefox (firebug too) when you load the page,
then clear the cache and keeping loading the page 4 times out of 10 it
will most likey skip things it should download (pictures, css files).

Here is my apache config:

# This is here for backwards compatability reasons and to support
# installing 3rd party modules directly via apxs2, rather than
# through the /etc/apache2/mods-{available,enabled} mechanism.
#
#LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/
mod_placeholder.so
LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/
mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule cache_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_cache.so
LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so

<IfModule mod_cache.c>
#LoadModule disk_cache_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/
mod_disk_cache.so
<IfModule mod_disk_cache.c>
CacheRoot c:/cacheroot
CacheSize 256
CacheEnable disk /
CacheDirLevels 5
CacheDirLength 3
</IfModule>

LoadModule mem_cache_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/
mod_mem_cache.so
<IfModule mod_mem_cache.c>
CacheEnable mem /
MCacheSize 4096
MCacheMaxObjectCount 100
MCacheMinObjectSize 1
MCacheMaxObjectSize 2048
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetInputFilter DEFLATE

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
#BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch \bMSIE\s7 !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|wav|mp3|zip|rar|
pdf|t?gz)$ no-gzip dont-vary

DeflateCompressionLevel 9

DeflateFilterNote Input instream
DeflateFilterNote Output outstream
DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio
LogFormat '"%r" %{outstream}n/%{instream}n (%{ratio}n%%)'
deflate
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/deflate_log deflate
</IfModule>

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName ipalaces.org
ServerAdmin webmaster@ipalaces.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
LogLevel warn

#CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %
{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)
\.ipalaces\.org$
RewriteCond /home/
%1/ -d
RewriteRule ^(.
+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.ipalaces\.org/media/
(.*) /home/$1/palace/media/$2
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.ipalaces
\.org(.*) /home/$1/www$2

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^free\.ipalaces\.org
$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ipalaces.org/home/free.html
[R=302]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ag\.ipalaces\.org
$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://animegravity.page.tl/
[R=302]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} opencanvas\.us$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /home/fusium/www$1


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (palacecorazonyapache|
glitterglampalace|castleintheskies|deviouskiss|enc hantedforestoflight|
maniaisle|3rdcoastinc|amorepalace|angelicvisions|a vatarisland|
avatarparadise|beautifuld|bombshellacademy|disneyu ponastar|
everyonespalace|familywroldz|inuyashadreams|lyingf airytails|
midgarpalace|oddzone|plasticcreationsdecaying|safe es|secretxdreams|
sharkland|splashfactory|stormpalace|thirdcoastinc| twistidfantasy|
urbanincc|urban-streets|butterflydreams2008|harrypotterpalace|
butterflydreams2008|butterflydreams2008|newsiespal ace|ohdork|
newsiespalace|harrypotterpalace|imperialdeck|photo graphsxo|focuspalace|
focuspalace|vibeislove|soulsinferno)\.(com|net|org |us)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /home/%1/www$1

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (palacecorazonyapache|
glitterglampalace|castleintheskies|deviouskiss|enc hantedforestoflight|
maniaisle|3rdcoastinc|amorepalace|angelicvisions|a vatarisland|
avatarparadise|beautifuld|bombshellacademy|disneyu ponastar|
everyonespalace|familywroldz|inuyashadreams|lyingf airytails|
midgarpalace|oddzone|plasticcreationsdecaying|safe es|secretxdreams|
sharkland|splashfactory|stormpalace|thirdcoastinc| twistidfantasy|
urbanincc|urban-streets|butterflydreams2008|harrypotterpalace|
butterflydreams2008|butterflydreams2008|newsiespal ace|ohdork|
newsiespalace|harrypotterpalace|imperialdeck|photo graphsxo|focuspalace|
focuspalace|vibeislove|soulsinferno)\.(com|net|org |us)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/media/(.*)$ /home/%1/palace/media/
$1
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName panel.ipalaces.org
ProxyPass / http://panel.ipalaces.org:10000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://panel.ipalaces.org:10000/
</VirtualHost>





Is there anything an expert can see that is obviously causing
problems? Another thing is that my server is pretty fast (maxes me out
at 600 KB/s) yet it has a super slow network wait time for http
requests, could this also be related to apache?

Please I hope someone can point me in the right direct.

Turns out it was the mod_cache.so.

But, to make this post non-useless, is there any optimization in my
loadout that someone can suggest or spot that I am doing the overly
hard way?