Oct 15
Shew, my post from yesterday got digged, and as a result, it made my hosting server very busy, which caused my account to be suspended. Sorry if you visited recently and got a hostgator-suspend-page!
I’ve dropped down to the default Wordpress theme, enabled page caching, turned off gzip compression for pages, and the server’s load average dropped from 6 .53to 1.30 in about a minute!
I’ll be moving this site to Tektonic, they have some real nice price plans and services. The rest of the less-cpu instensive stuff will stay here on Hostgator, they are cheap enough 
At least my site will now run from a decent Ubuntu 6.06 box, and I can install whatever I want on it. Yay!
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October 15th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
I suggest checking out NearlyFreeSpeech.Net — they offer very reasonable pricing for hosting with good technical capabilities. You only pay for the service you use, so you pay a little bit more when you get Dugg but immediately scale back.
October 16th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Sorry, didn’t mean to have you taken down
October 16th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
No problem Vince! I think I needed to move my blog to bigger hosting at some point. I enjoyed getting all these hits, it’s quite interesting what it can do to a server
October 17th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I can heartily recommend Linode if you’re interested in maintaining your own box.