Here’s a solution that will save your blog when a digg effect or massive stumbled upon traffics is killing your web host – Turbocharged. Over at Turbocharged, it lays a good explanation how your Wordpress blog will handle these traffics comes in massive amount.

Everyone’s been there at least once. One of your blog pages gets dugg or slashdotted. What to do?

WordPress is often maligned as a resource-hungry blog platform — one that requires a lot of resources to run in high-traffic settings. But believe it or not, it’s possible to survive traffic spikes, while still serving pages to your audience swiftly. And you won’t need big iron to do it.

Throughout this guide, I’ll make a few assumptions on your part:

1. You’re using Apache to serve your pages, and you can change your Apache configuration.
2. You’re storing the contents of your blog in a MySQL database, the configuration of which you can change.
3. You’re running Turbocharged, or you have access to install WordPress plugins.