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It is a bit stupid... Surely just loading that small article WP must be thrashing their database. This works (for now):

This'll work forever:

That's what they said about Yucca Mountain and time_t!

* For small values of forever.

Heh. Self-referential cache: http://db.tt/qAfMnTjl

Well, I guess for the obvious reason that they couldn't handle the hits.

IMHO, the first thing to do when you could not keep up the traffic is to use Coral Cache.

Just redirect to your.domain.com.nyud.net/article. Done.

They could have just made a static version with wget.