Pushing a 100k visitor Digg through a 256MB VPS

I thought some of you might find this interesting:
Surviving 100k visitors
I have written down some steps I took to ensure my server stays up during a really nice day.

 

Hmm...an extensive read.

 

Thanks for sharing
Did you make it on the front page, yet?

 

Don't think about where the traffic came from gemini, take it as a server optimization post. Traffic can come from many places.
To answer your question, the post isn't theoretical, its about what I did.