How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight?
vulpes: S3 amazon link to download, stripped down version at the ready if your current site will start generating too much load. Dreamhost loves to suspend accounts which use too many recourses so to prepare I would move your site over to something more reliable like a small slicehost slice. At the very least you should lower your TTL on the domain to 10 minutes and as soon as you see your site go down, open up a new account at slice and switch over quickly.