How do you get snappy performance for a blog when you’re not spending very much on hosting? How much hardware can your hosting provider throw at your blog when you’re paying $5 to $6 per month?
If you're running a site with W3 Total Cache (W3TC), the Thesis theme, and Wordpress 3.3, beware. Clicking the "Big Ass Save Button" once to save your Thesis options will corrupt all your Thesis settings. If you're using this combination, go to your site's dashboard and, on the General Settings panel for W3TC, disable Object Caching. Word is that this will be addressed in the next version of Thesis.