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by bcardarella 4423 days ago
Don't put your websites on Hosting Gator
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joezimjs 4423 days ago
Can't really afford a better host right now. On days like this though, I'm definitely seeing that I need something that can handle more traffic
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eropple 4423 days ago
You might be able to. A $5 droplet on DO, configured correctly, should be able to handle a Hacker Newsering. =) The cache plugins for WP are really good these days.
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joezimjs 4423 days ago
I'm using Cloudflare and Quick Cache, but doesn't seem to help enough. The HostGator support guys recommended switching to WP Super Cache.

What's DO?

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syvolt 4423 days ago
DigitalOcean, it's not shared hosting and therefore harder to configure, that being said it's definitely worth it. I've found that even on a low-end VPS you can juice it for more than you could with a high-end shared hosting account.
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user24 4422 days ago
I use WP Super Cache, it's seen me safely through HN frontpages, popular reddit submissions and being linked from xkcd's blog.
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endianswap 4423 days ago
DigitalOcean, a VPS provider.
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flexd 4423 days ago
How much are you paying for that on Hostgator?
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