Yesterday the site was down for a number of hours because I did something ridiculously stupid that disabled php. Today the site was down for a number of hours, but I didn't do it.

I've noticed that since going live on Sunday evening the site has been inundated with blogspam. I mean there are pages and pages and pages of it in my spam filter, which makes me feel slightly less guilty about the legitimate posters who are getting caught by it (I still want to figure out why my spam filter has something against Scotland, but I'm working on overcoming it's nationalist fervor.) 1

All that spam in so short a time has got to be resource-heavy -- if those were actual users commenting on my site I expect that would represent more traffic than my expanding hosting solution could handle. As it is, it's just spambots, but it's still taking its toll on site performance.

Hopefully they go away soon...

1. 1. Drupal traces its origins back to Antwerp (Belgium). Those crazy footballers just can't get along.