Apparently digg picked up my Playstation 3 article on the frontpage today. This didn’t make the server at Dreamhost happy. WordPress was bringing that server down, along with my other site, helpmewithmygameproblems.com. I got a nice email from Dreamhost support telling me why they disabled it, not because digg was causing too many requests or killing my bandwidth. No, it’s because WordPress was hogging all the CPU time generating the same page over and over. They told me how to enable WP-Cache, which I did and the site appears to be running much smoother now.

TL;DR (That’s Too Long; Didn’t Read for you non-Shackers) Make sure to have WP-Cache enabled if you run a WordPress blog for the off-chance you get dugg or Slashdotted.