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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Suddenly the web site is loading crazy fast.  What was the last thing you did?  I'd say it started performing in the last five minutes.[/quote]

The reality is that I don't think I've ever done anything to actually fix the site. I change everything I can think of and nothing works and then -- poof -- it starts working. The next time, I try to redo everything I did before but nothing will work and then -- poof -- again it works.

I'm convinced now that this is a result of a distributed spambot network. Because the requests are for real pages (for the most part) and a variety of user agents are used, it is almost impossible to identify which connections are real and which are from spambots. However, after a week of chasing this, I have started to recognize their patterns. But, I'm always a step behind them and by the time I block them, the damage is done. I'm not even sure they are the cause of the problem, but right now I don't have any other culprits in mind.
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