Dugg? No problem with WordPress

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September 13, 2007

An old post I wrote on a spoof MMORPG named “Outside” was Dugg not too long ago and I was quite pleased to find that my server and the blogging software (WordPress) that I use was handling the load extremely well. Quite obviously I was getting more hits in a day than entire months:

My setup is a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with 256MB RAM hosted at SliceHost and this blog is served off Nginx and PHP FastCGI processes to handle PHP scripts. The wonderful (because it just works and is really easy to setup) WP-Cache WordPress plugin keeps a cache of pages that’s swept at logical times (i.e. whenever there are any updates or comments).

I may be a Rails/merb fanboy, but this awesome piece of blog software that can stand up to the Digg Effect with ease is great. WordPress FTW!

Posted by Chu Yeow at September 13, 2007 SGT |

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Congrats on the Digg, WP-Cache is what really saved you. WordPress without it, even on dedicated servers, has crumbled under the weight of Digg. It’s kind of notorious for it in the Digg community.

Posted by: John on September 13, 2007 9pm

Ahh I had the impression that those were blogs on shared hosting so they collapsed when Dugg. I do need to search for the notoriety of WordPress in dealing with the Digg Effect!

Posted by: Chu Yeow on September 14, 2007 12am

If you are getting Dugg a lot, VPS account will need to be upgraded to dedicated platform or even multiple dedicated platforms, including multi-level architecture. Nice article and review thought.

Posted by: WP Guy on December 27, 2007 10pm

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