I've had this problem and should be able to help you out here!
About 2 years ago or so, one of my staff on Movie-Vault.com had obtained very early production photos of Star Wars: Episode 2. A bunch of major leading sites, including Yahoo! (!!!) had linked to it. We got SO much traffic it was INSANE.
It took down my server, too. I was with DreamHost at the time, I believe, and was facing huge overage penalties. I had so much traffic that it took down DreamHost's whole server I was on, and they had to shut down my account (temporarily).
The solution? I had my friend come to the rescue, and he basically mirrored everything onto another site. Now, technical-wise I couldn't tell you how he did it exactly, but he basically copied the site onto another server and then used mod_rewrite I believe to have all the files loaded from the other server, while still on my domain. It worked flawlessly.
Later, my sites were starting to grow where it was then that I decided to do the 'big move' to a dedicated.
So, you could do the mirroring thing, but really that's just a temporarily solution. While being dugg and receiving 934 diggs is certainly a lot, it shouldn't be enough to give you server problems. You should upgrade; the money you'll make from these diggs will easily pay for any added server expenses..
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