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Update: Some of my readers left me recommendations in the comments saying to upgrade to WP-Supercache, so I did. Thanks everyone.
After reading some social news sites, I noticed a new plugin that I had not heard of before. It is called WP-Cache 2.1 and it allows every page and comment on your blog to be cached into a static file. This allows your host to display that one static page for all of your visitors, and it will only update that static page when you add new pages or comments. This allows your webhosting company to bypass the standard page loading scripts which normally has to login to your databases every time the blog is viewed. Hopefully with this new plugin installed my blog will load much faster for returning visitors. This plugin also allows you to be able to survive a featured post on very popular websites (john chow effect). Rather than having to connect to your wordpress database for 10,000 unique visitors, your server connects once, updates the page, and then displays that page to the 9999 others. This will save you in bandwidth, loading times, and hopefully money with your hosting bill.
The script is 100% free and takes 5 seconds to install so I recommend you install it or at least add it to your “to-do” list if you have not already. Update: In my opinion the homepage does load a bit faster. What do you think?
They’ve made an update to WP-Cache. They now have WP-SuperCache, for even more powerful caching services. It comes complete with a lockdown button for when you expect a traffic spike via Digg or StumbleUpon, that way your host doesn’t go crazy with the overload of traffic all at once, instead, everybody views a cached page if they’ve visited the site before.
Yup, WP Cache is the thing of the past, I just started using WP SuperCache about a week ago and it’s way better. A little headache though when installin’ it.
I heard from the plugin author that his Supercache can handle a page featured on Digg front page. I will be using it after I set up my permalink structure. Collin, did you try WP-Cache 2.1?
Thats what I was using, but I heard supercache was the same thing (but better).
WOW another good post…I am gonna try this out
Thanks for the heads up.
I’m using it right now 
thanks for the tip, going to give it a try… will clear up hits to the DB server.
Thanx for posting it
I will use it now