Alex A. Hutnik

I wrote a plugin for Wordpress. It displays a list of the most popular posts on your blog. Check it out on my plugins page: http://www.alexhutnik.com/wordpress

You can see it in action on the sidebar too.

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Great article for Wordpress users about optimizing your site for heavy traffic.  Also, it gives an example for using squid to go between the user and Apache to reduce server load.

Personally, I use WP-Cache, and everything seems to work out fine.

Weathering heavy traffic with WordPress and Turbocharged | Turbocharged

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