Make Front Page Static

Hi,

Due to taking part in a TV interview tomorrow on internet censorship that is going out to an audience of over 10 million viewers we are expecting a massive amount of hits on our website, (www.blacktrianglecampaign.org), and when out of courtesy I contacted our hosting company to warn of this, (we are on a shared server and I did not want this spike to cause any problems for other sites on the server), and ask if we could do anything to help reduce the load he advised –

“To take off extra load you could start by making the frontpage static, it would take off the endless queries to the database and the PHP processing every request. You’d make an index.html of the site frontpage, but have index.php process all other requests using Rewrite.”

We have Mingle on our site with that as our home page.

I wouldn’t know how to even start with this, could anybody please give me some pointers.

Highest regards,

Holmey