[1]: https://twitter.com/jorilallo/status/261977607757778944
[1]: https://twitter.com/jorilallo/status/261977607757778944
Update: Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d...
It's really affordable for personal sites, and for static sites like yours you'll be getting 98%+ cache hits – almost no traffic will ever hit your Dreamhost box, it will all come from their highly optimized Varnish caches around the world.
Learndot's blog is hosted on a ec2 small instance fronted by fastly, our launch article was on HN/Techcrunch/etc... simultenously and we never went over 10% cpu.
tl;dr: Use fastly.
Edit: Looks like Danielle thinks so... she signed up with them a few hours ago. https://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill/status/28918229241967411...
TL;DR: Use Varnish.
*Minor edit
It's this kind of thing that makes you want to see a service fail, because that sort of behavior doesn't deserve any measure of success.
Made me want to figure out what kind of person would pull stuff like this.
Turns out he's a kind of serial entrepreneur[1]. And not that it matters, but he didn't build BetaPunch himself.
[1]: http://www.marylandbailbondsblog.com/2010/05/big-boyz-bail-b...