Digg effect in terms of bandwidth

How much bandwidth does a digg story (frontpage) eat up? Will it effect my other sites placed on the same server. I have around 1000 gb in bandwidth...
Also, I've heard that wordpress usually fails in withstanding all the traffic. Hence, I installed this wordpress cache plugin but does it really help?

Thank you, I'm pretty new with digg, although a huge fan of stumbleupon.

 

depends on your hosting, how hard they are hitting your dugg article, time of day, size of yor pages, number of queries, etc.

if you have an article that you are pretty sure will be dugg hard, create a static version of it and use that link in digg.

 

Yea I know it varies but what can I expect approximately, I suppose it wouldn't kill all the bandwidth now would it (1000gb)?

Thanks for replying

 

i've been on the digg front page 3 times, 8,000 total diggs and its not the bandwidth that end sup killing me. i have 2TB a month so when i was on the frontpage last week I only used 100 gigs.

what will get you is the CPU usage, which has much more limited resources than bandwidth, especially if your host likes to pack domains on a server. the best thing you can do is streamline server side scripts and be prepared to take some down if you can while you are on the front page. if you exceed your cpu usage, which usually isnt mentioned when you sign up they they can either take you offline or dump you on an overflow server which sucks.

either way, if you think you will make it on to the front page i would call your host and see what would happen if you exceeding your cpu usage.

 

Various factors depend on the amount of bandwidth that you'll be needing... anyways, to prepare for such an effect, optimize your site as much as you can.. meaning lower the quantity of graphics in your sites if you have to and make it more text based.