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Consider switching to a statically generated blog using something like Jekyll. From my experience, an unoptimized wordpress install doesn't take much traffic to take it down assuming every request is hitting mysql.


I was using SuperCache, and that seemed sufficient when I did some load tests.

I think what killed me was the micro instance only has ~617 megs of ram. The medium instance is holding up fine.




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