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There are times when your website might experience short periods of very high traffic. This could be the result of TV exposure, or your linkbait just hit the front page of Digg. The worst thing that can happen at this point is that your site can’t cope - this becomes a huge missed opportunity.
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from onreact 1250 Days ago #
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I’d suggest WP Supercache on top of WP Cache.

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from MarcoVittigni 1250 Days ago #
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With Firebug i suggest to use Yslow,great addon.

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from yojpotter2 1250 Days ago #
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Thanks for the tips! I will keep them handy!

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from seobro 1250 Days ago #
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This is usually when your host shuts you down. The contract says 15 terabytes and you only used 100 gigs,  but the host claims "Excessive use of bandwidth"Lets see 100 gig X 30 days = 3,000 gigs, much less than the 15,000 gigs of bandwidth you are permitted.You call them up and they say "We can let one person hog our server". Yes you heard right, singular, server, they have one server. That pretty photograph of a large data center humming with activity is a stock photo.

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from NickWilsdon 1250 Days ago #
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@seobroTo be fair you get the same message from large providers like Dreamhost too. Everyone in the industry states unrealistic data transfer and disk space levels for advertising purposes. Once you try to hold them to this, you will often find a catch. Usually excessive CPU or RAM usage in my experience. You have to be sensible about the price you pay too. If you’re paying $5/year for the resources of an entire server, don’t be surprised when you find the catch in there. Servers/bandwidth are cheap when bought in bulk, but not *that* cheap.     

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from LemiSmart 1250 Days ago #
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Short and informative. The worst that can happen is that you spend money in SEM and once you get such traffic as a result - your server goes down :( ... Thats awfull.

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