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OK, so obviously I suck at server configuration/optimization. Any tips for optimizations that could have enabled me to support the influx of Hacker News traffic?

Note:

* Ubuntu 512MB on Rackspace

* Apache

* Wordpress with wp-super-cache and minimal plugins enabled

Thanks for the feedback!

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* Ditching Apache for nginx will make the biggest impact.

* Run PHP with php-fpm (bundled in latest PHP 5.3)

* Use a PHP accelerator like APC.

Awesome advice. Thanks!

I had a similar issue a while back after having a blog post of mine featured on HN front page for some time. The problem is really apache. Either configure apache with workers (which is ain't the default config) or add nginx in front. You might be interested in this particular post:

http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/01/wordpress-need-for-speed-o...

This has been throughly tested with yet another post on HN front page a while later! My blog handled the load without a glitch.

Looks like I'm replying with the same comment over and over again. But I have to share nginx love :-)

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