The “Break it Down” Blog

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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