How do I optimize a high traffic Wordpress website?

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Published on 2010-12-29T11:46:01Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 11:55 UTC
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Hello, I am running a wordpress based site which is now hosted on (mt) under DV-Extreme package 2GB+256MB addon RAM. It a muti author site where people are engaged in writing posts, comments, updating status etc. According to Google Analytics this month traffic

Visitor = 45,764 Pageview = 1,051,186 Visit = 141,447

I have cdn my site, compress the css, used w3 Total cache plugin to optimize my site.

Since last month I am getting several down notice from Pingdom. Right now I am facing more down alert than before. And have to restart my site several time to up again.

Is my hosting resource is not enough? Do I need more resource? or what could be the solution?

Helpful suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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