Page level caching is one of the most underused features of rails. Most applications show anonymous users identical content, and can tolerate that content being

Page level caching is one of the most underused features of rails. Most applications show anonymous users identical content, and can tolerate that content being cached briefly. Setting this up gives you slashdot protection as well as access to a last chance degraded mode if there's a chain of catastrophic failures further into the app stack.