If you got 0.3 req/s from wordpress, there was probably something wrong with your configuration or system. I run wordpress on absolutely ancient hardware via Apache SuPHP. It basically does a sudo + CGI-like exec per request. It still manages to squeeze out about 20 req/s.
Above setup was enough to withstand being at the frontpage of Hacker news. I'm guessing this website's problem is more related to Hostgator or whatever he's hosting it on. Perhaps a badly configured database backend.
Above setup was enough to withstand being at the frontpage of Hacker news. I'm guessing this website's problem is more related to Hostgator or whatever he's hosting it on. Perhaps a badly configured database backend.