Hosted on a $10/month DigitalOcean VPS. Debian, Nginx W/SPDY patch, Percona, PHP-FPM, APC, WordPress, mysqltuner WordPress Plugins: Quick Cache, Better WordPr

Hosted on a $10/month DigitalOcean VPS. Debian, Nginx W/SPDY patch, Percona, PHP-FPM, APC, WordPress, mysqltuner WordPress Plugins: Quick Cache, Better WordPress Minify, Lazy Load, WP-HTML-Compression, WP-Optimize, Types, WP-Paginate, Google Analyticator, Formidable, Force Regenerate Thumbnails, WordPress SEO (Yoast) Front-End Development: CodeKit (Sass, Compass), ImageOptim (raster image compressor), Scour (SVG image compressor) I think those are the major infrastructural pieces & performance tools. Survived being on the front page of HN with the server 90% idle.