I believe tnuc's smiley face denoted sarcasm.

Hmm, a few visitors and Ryan's blog has crashed. What non-Microsoft tools & hosting do you think he used?

It's hosted with Wordpress on Linode so you are correctly spotting a huge dose of irony.

Irony Indeed! Never see traffic like this usually.

I run Wordpress on an Amazon micro instance and have easily handled enormous runs without the server breaking a sweat or failing to serve a request.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

The simplest thing in the world.

It's kinda what I get for running Wordpress on Linode. I'll have to checkout AWS.

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"I always had to hunch forward to be able to read through the micro sized type."

Press CTRL and +. No more hunching required.