I hold a programming degree and own a web hosting company called eVentureBiz.

From my experience, most everyone looking for web hosting only concerns themselves with disk space and bandwidth. However, to survive a Digg, disk space has very little to do with it – and bandwidth is only a small part.

One major thing people overlook is how much CPU time they are allotted. On a shared server, you have to share CPU time with other website owners. If you go over, your hosting company may warn you a couple times and then possibly suspend your account.

In general, there are a few things you can do if you don’t have the money to upgrade to a dedicated server (i.e. your own personal server with only your website on it).

A well written blog template coded in php will reduce the amount of function calls to the server. Therefore, the better and more ingenious the person was who coded your site’s template, the less memory and cpu time it will need.

Also, if you know a little programming, or if you know just enough to mess with things, you could always go into your blog template files, like your header.php file and replace php code with static html code.

Now that your template has found a home on your site, replace the function call to the database to retrieve your website’s title (which slows things down) and insert a static html code for the title.

To set it straight, static html websites are always faster than php websites which have to wait to retrieve information from a database.

PHP just allows us to do a whole bunch of neat stuff like commenting on your blog.

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In any case, there is a plugin called “digg protector” I haven’t tried it yet, nor do I have the means to Just got popular on Digg once so far

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/digg-protector/

Did you ever try this? Perhaps if you could test it out?

I’m thrilled to have “stumbled upon” this post! I’m actually considering making the move from Blogger to WordPress and so I find this information most fascinating and helpful.

Thanks

Michele

What could I do more.
Can you advice me some good dedicated hosting company.

I currently have this server:
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
1024mb DDR
80gb SATA
1,500gb (bandwidth)

It costs me $174 and doesn’t do it’s job. ( I underline I use only a wordpress blog on it)

Please help me here!

Cutting back on everything that hits the server, like images and scripts, helps a ton. Cutting back on needless WordPress Plugins lowers the hits on the database.

If you are in a shared hosting situation and timing is against you, the hits on the database are critical as those are the most fought over elements on the hosted server. Killing off the rest just lowers the interaction with the server and it’s memory share.

The whole page can be cached in memory, not on the hard drive. And while that obviously interferes with dynamic stuff and maybe the comments, it may be worth it for heavy diggs. I believe you can tell the server to refresh the page once every few minutes or so.

Would be interesting to see if anyone has any experience with that and knows of problems.

With Media Temple you have to look at your GPU usage more than bandwidth for most Wordpress blogs.