Hi all, this is my site. Not sure why it went down, still working on that. Its hosted on Linode which has been remarkably stable even with traffic spikes (I actually posted this as a Show HN about a year and a half ago and it was on the top of HN for over a day -- which was completely unexpected).
FYI, I haven't updated the site in a while (other than converting it to Wordpress) -- Believe it or not, I live in the states now :) I'd love to get some guest editors on it; if anyone is interested please contact me.
I'm not sure what the current state of the WordPress world is, but I know that without caching you were bound to crumble under any kind of traffic spike not very long ago.
Perhaps that's a good first step (I'm sorry I don't know which of the caching plugins is best, WP SuperCache used to be the one to use 'back in the day')
I know it is a lot to ask but I would love to do the same for Israel and I'd like to steal some of your design. Would you mind? I'd encourage you to put the code on github, and I'll happily contribute an upvote button that only allows Canadians / Israelis (by geoip) to vote.
Please feel free (maybe just give me some attribution with a link back to cantada.ca). Its just a basic Wordpress installation using the Blaskan theme, so I don't think its necessary to put it on Github.
FYI, I haven't updated the site in a while (other than converting it to Wordpress) -- Believe it or not, I live in the states now :) I'd love to get some guest editors on it; if anyone is interested please contact me.