Hi all,<p>If I'm building a PHP website which is expected to withstand some big peaks in traffic (think big publication articles or a popular link on HN), what are the key things to pay attention to? Will a normal website be ok? Do I use a framework with caching on shared hosting? Or is it all about getting it on something like Amazon S3 and not really caring about the code?<p>Our main fear is the site shutting down at a point of peak traffic.<p>Some basic background: The site will be serving about 1000 rows of data from a MySQL database but there isn't a priority for this data to be real-time. No e-comm or anything clever - just listings and profiles.<p>Thanks in advance for your help,<p>Ali