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Great news. Please let me know the details once everything is up and running. I can present this at our next board(=motley bunch of volunteers) meeting in mid-March. Our aim was to hit 100,000 uniques in six months. We did that in one. This months projection is about 300,000. We will definitely need to move to a dedicated server sooner rather than later.

Actually, the problem is not the bandwidth. It is the number of active MySQL connections. 99% of the time all work well. But when I get slashdotted or dugg, I get 1000 visitors/second and it messes things up. I have sort of found a solution: make a static cache of popular pages. But I am doing this by hand now. I wonder if there's any script that could potentially automate the process. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Guys, Given the popularity of my site (150,000 unique visitors so far in Feb) can you suggest me a good upgrade plan? I am well impressed with TCH , so I hope you can recommend something inhouse.

slashdot.org

They are all social news sites, with varying degrees of "democracy". Why don't you try them out yourself. I am not sure whether I am allowed to put links here or not, so I guess I will have to ask you to google them.

Cheers guys, I just got dugg, so I quickly put a link to TCH. Check out my site: Press Esc

My last hosting provider used to shut our site every time I get slashdotted or dugg. When the guy shut us down for just getting on the front page of reddit, we decided that enough was enough and moved to TCH. We got slashdotted and the site didn't go down. We made the front page twice on reddit and the site didn't go down. Haven't got dugg since we moved here 9 days ago, but I hope we can get dugg too. Kudos to TCH for having robust servers that are not overcrowded like other hosting companies. To say thank you, I would like to carry "Proudly hosted by TCH" or something like that on our site. Would that be okay?