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HN seems to have killed it :/ Google doesn't seem to have a cache either, since the post is brand new.

Edit: Very old nginx/1.0.5... methinks it's time to upgrade. There were a lot of improvements to this version even in 1.1.0/1, including performance

http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES

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Sorry folks! Desperately trying to fix it now...

I'm guessing you have root control of the server? Install Varnish, it's a reverse proxy that caches request results in the RAM.

Tried WP Super Cache?

No, I haven't. Had no reason, really, just trying to fix it on nginx/php-fpm level at the moment.

If it's an interesting fix, please consider doing a post like "What I learned from getting slashdotted by Hacker News".

I am by no means a devops guy, and this is just a quickly whipped together t1.micro instance with haproxy/nginx/php-fpm/wp/whatever, that's been built using tutorials of questionable quality (as it turned out now) that I found online.

So there probably won't be too much value in a post like that. All I did was setting some sane parameters for Fast CGI stuff in nginx, some for php-fpm and the db.

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