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Coping with the load

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Are you ready for the big time? What’s the difference you may ask? Well, if your site gets really really popular you may be getting thousands of page hits an hour and unless your server is designed to handle the load, you may find your blog suddenly unavailable. Let’s say, for example you have a blog about consumer electronics, you know LCD TVs, Projectors and other such gadgets. One day you write a blog post with a review of the latest 3D TV and it gets linked to from a major website. All of a sudden, you have a deluge of traffic and your server just can’t handle it.

This is where a plugin called WP Super Cache can help. It builds up static versions of each of your pages so that your server can use them without having to process any PHP. It’s an essential tool for anyone expecting potentially large traffic spikes. So, install it and set it up, and feel free to write all the projector reviews you want; you know your blog can handle anything you can throw at it now.

WP Super Cache 0.9

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There’s been a new release of one of the more awesome plugins around: WP Super Cache. In case you’ve never come across it, it gives WordPress a boost by preparing static versions of pages when they are called so that the next time a user visits the site they don’t have to be generated again by WordPress. It’s one of the recomendations if you’re running a High Performance WordPress installation and absolutely indispensable if your server is struggling under the load (More indispensible that weight loss pills for a an overweight hippo!)

The new version has a number of bug fixes and also some new features, like the ability to detect mobile devices and serve them a separate page (allowing mobile plugins to work properly) and some improved efficiencies around cached page storage and garbage collection. If you’re blog is slow, check it out!