During the election the dailykos usage obviously would spike
pretty high and this was posted after the spike.
The following post is about the system and some of the things he did to handle
the load.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/8/161641/544
Looks like their still recovering. He mentioned one of the things they had to do
is switch to a simpler less feature laden template so the home page looks a bit
sparse compared to its normal look.
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