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I had an article sit on the frontpage over the weekend about two weeks ago. Total traffic was around 18k, peaking at 140 uniques/second. This was a WordPress
by polyfractal 14y ago
I had an article sit on the frontpage over the weekend about two weeks ago. Total traffic was around 18k, peaking at 140 uniques/second.
This was a WordPress blog, so I had it configured to use W3 Total Cache, AWS Cloudfront as my CDN, nginx as my webserver, APC for php opcode caching.
My current box is a pretty beefy dedicated, but I used to run the exact same config on a 512mb Linode instance. It handled front-pageing just fine (similar traffic stats).
Basically, cache everything you can, look up performance tuning guides for your webserver, disable keep alive.