Tweak WordPress to survive a digg attack

Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours – Elliott Back

People everywhere complain that WordPress is slow, or that they can’t survive a digg. They die if they get more than 10,000 visitors a day, their hosting providers ban them for using too many resources, and they cry because they have to purchase expensive hosting plans. If this describes your plight, before you run over to Survive Digg hosting and plunk down even more money, take a look at your WordPress setup and LAMP stack. You can make them better.