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4 WordPress Tips for Surviving Slashdot, Digg, Reddit or StumbleUpon

We got a story on the front page of Slashdot… and got our assess handed to us literally 2mins later with server load jumping from 0.56 to 10 and then off into the 40s where the server just decided to melt instead of host pages. During the last few hours we’ve been troubleshooting what went wrong [...]

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Over the years, The “Break it Down” Blog has had opportunities to host with a handful of tier-1 providers and has always had to moved as traffic increased and the provider’s service was unable to keep up or even cover the promised level of service. In 2007 The “Break it Down” Blog moved to RimuHosting for [...]

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Moving Blog!

Please bear with us while we move our hosting from MediaTemple to RimuHosting. The pictures to the blog may be offline for about a day but then come back online later. Also we are aware of the rendering issues with IE, have no idea why they are occurring (site looks fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, [...]

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