It’s common knowledge if your a Digg.com user that if your using WordPress as your blogging system and if your article makes it to Digg’s frontpage you are likely going to see your blog crash, this is because WordPress uses Mysql database and PHP to fetch pages which consumes more resources (cpu and memory) than blogging softwares generating static pages.
Angsuman Chakraborty has written a simple yet really good tips on how to optimize your WordPress blog(s) so that it can withstand the digg or slashdot effect.
An excerpt:
Slim & trim WordPress.
WordPress is supported by tons of free and paid plugins. However many of them are not optimized. The slow query log step above should help you to identify the slow queries. Search the plugin source code to identify the plugins responsible. Work, politely, with the authors to resolve the issue.
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