[dmc]

Without being familiar with your service, do you implement caching? memcached[1] may lighten your load if you do not.

What web server do you use, apache? Perhaps nginx or lighttpd would be a better fit if you do use apache.

Check out this post[2] for more details on decreasing load.

and try not to knock your server offline at your peak time ;)

HTH.

[1] http://memcached.org/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2220273

[dshipper]

Do you know if we would be able to implement on Rackspace's Managed Cloud hosting? Considering we haven't slept in forever it seems like it would be hard for us to learn how to set up a new server manually at this point :)

[dmc]

I'm not familiar with that service, sorry.

However, looking at their FAQ from [1]:

"Totally customizable, each Cloud Server gives you full root access"

so I would imagine you can make any changes you'd like. However, every host is different and YMMV.

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/server...

[sfrench]

Looks like you probably can.

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2009/07/30/setting-up-me...