How to survive a wordpress digg effect

Since you have reached this page, I assume that your site is located on a public server and has already become a victim of the digg effect (or you at least know what it is) - and now you need to somehow solve this problem.

Of course, it is good to post your articles on Digge - so your voice will surely be heard. Everything goes well until your article gets to the main Digg page. From now on, you can no longer control your site, you cannot open a control panel or access your files via FTP. Huge traffic from Digg will simply bury the server where your site is located.
If the server administrator is watching him, do not doubt that your account will be blocked. If the administrator is inattentive, then your site will not survive anyway - the server is not able to cope with such traffic. You have no choice but to look helplessly and wait until traffic drops to a normal level.

Optimize wordpress for working with digg traffic:

The first (and very important) thing you need to do: install a plugin called “wp-cache”. It simply caches your pages, and the server does not need to execute the same PHP scripts thousands of times per minute. Simply put, it turns your PHP files into something like HTML pages.
Believe me, it works - I tried and made sure.
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Put wp-cache right now - it can be difficult, but don't give up; even if it takes two hours, you will not regret it. Let me give a tip (on installing wp-cache):

1. Before activating the wp-cache plugin on your wordpress, open your control panel and go to the file manager (you can also use FTP).
2. In the “/ public_html” folder, find the “wp-content” folder.
3. Make sure that you set 777 permissions for this folder (although it is believed that this can cause some security problems, this is the only way to install wp-cache without any headaches. And don't worry about security, while sharing with other users, it’s still not will get access to your folders. If you are worried that the administrator will have access to your files, it is better to buy a dedicated server, then you definitely will not have any problems).
4. Now you can activate wp-cache, it will configure everything yourself.

Link: here you can download the latest version of wp-cache !

And now something else that can be done.
These are pretty obvious things:

• Keep the site as simple as possible, use smaller graphics if you don’t want to spend the entire traffic limit.
• Use smaller plugins or disable unused plugins (although this won't be a problem after installing wp-cache).
• You can also ban comments, although everyone likes to have their articles commented.
• Try to avoid using CAPTCHA! (For example, in the form of sending a comment).
• Do not enable the wordpress function of emailing new comments to articles — this is simply not necessary (disable the “E-mail me whenever: Anyone posts a comment” option on the wp-admin / options-discussion.php page).
• Get rid of all that is not very necessary, which can overload the server.
• Use a smaller java script? Joke! In fact, it offloads the server, so try to transfer as much work as possible to the Java script.

And if nothing helps?

In this case, there are not so many options; do one of the following:

• Use the site blogger.com, there you can even use your own domain name.
• Use coralcache caching services, i.e. send a cached copy of the page to Digg. This has some obvious flaws.
• If your blog brings enough money, it's time to think about a dedicated server.

Well, one more thing you can do: wait until your article becomes popular - then it will be posted on duggmirror.com, and all traffic can be redirected there. To learn more about duggmirror.com, check out their website.

How to redirect traffic?

• Through the .htaccess file on your site (using the Redirectmatch command). This is only possible if you still have access to your files via the control panel or FTP, which is very unlikely.
• Using the service everydns.net (visit the website to learn more).

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