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		sudonim on Jan 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thoughts on yesterday's paid vs free visitor.js 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.

jseims on Jan 8, 2012 [–]

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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