The Shures Network

When a website gets featured on a popular social network, thousands of visitors may start flooding to your website. To prevent yourself from ending up like the others whose servers die when this happens, you need to plan ahead and take the steps necessary to streamline your website.

To prepare in case, I have implemented bandwidth and server load conservation for this site. I installed the WP-Cache wordpress plugin to turn the dynamic PHP pages into static HTML. I also recently switched the default background to plain white. These two changes along with the Custom Query String plug-in I’m using should do the trick.

I think we are prepared for any Digg Effect.

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