Wow, what a night I had yesterday’¦
I got digged on the Gimp VS Photoshop article, it was just amazing…
In a matter of seconds I’ve received so many hits, I totally forgot to prepare Wordpress for it
something that sadly caused my Server to crush and myself to lose a lot of hits (and votes)
not only that, I’ve also discovered that DIGG users are completely ad blind, from all the traffic I’ve received not even one person clicked the ads.. That’s a shame.
If you don’t want to be like me, I suggest you take the following steps to spare the nightmare I’ve gone through last night.

1.Turn Persistent connection ON, if you’ll get digged, reddit (or whatever you young guys doing these days) and your Wordpress (or any other script for that matter) would open
A unique mySQL connection for every user that will visit your site, you’ll kill the server before you’ll even figure out that you’ve been digged.
Doing so is extremely easy (with Wordpress), all you need to do is edit the file wp-db.php
Open that file and search for the function ‘œmysql_connect’. (It’s only used once.) Just change that to ‘œmysql_pconnect’ and save your changes. And Walla, you’re using persistent connections!

2.WP-Cache, this little Wordpress plug-in can turn into a lifesaver when and if you’ll get digged. Wordpress usually Regenerate the whole page with template and pulls articles from the Database dynamically for each and every user, this can turn into a nightmare in matter of minutes crushing your CPU
And slowing down the site until it will break up everything.

This amazing plug-in will delay the Regeneration of pages and instead of doing it dynamically for each user it will only do it every X seconds/minutes/hours. This will make your site a LOT faster and easier to access even under heavy load.
All you need to do is upload the plug-in files into your Plug-in directory, enable it from the Plug-in menu, and then let it set up itself automatically from Options ‘“ Wp-Cache. For more information and download links you can go to the following site: WP-Cache 2.1.1 Download and Instructions

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