[ Thanks to isaldana for this link.
]
“There have been multiple occasions where I am trying to read an
article and the website is down. I have encountered this multiple
times where people say something like: ‘I got around 13,000 hits
and server couldn’t handle it.’ There are even websites that become
popular by making the content of the popular article available. One
of these cases is DuggMirror, a service that mirrors Digg articles
and makes them available in case the source is unavailable. If you
are running a blog and you have your own server, here are a few
tips to easily handle at least half a million hits per day…”