The page in the original post has received 16,000 pageviews in the last 12 hours. Admittedly the project pages were not performing very well initially but after

The page in the original post has received 16,000 pageviews in the last 12 hours. Admittedly the project pages were not performing very well initially but after I added caching they haven't even blinked, and the dual core VPS (which runs a dozen other services besides this) is ticking along at a load average of 0.63. Tell me again how I didn't design for scalability. I'd also love to hear your definition of "more traffic".