So apparently it was all Dreamhost’s fault. Both Mephisto and Movable Type are working at reasonable speeds. I still stand by the notion that Dreamhost really can’t handle Ruby on Rails very well. I’m looking into switching to (or at least adding on) a different shared host. Site5 looks promising.

I’m not blaming Dreamhost for the connectivity snafu today. It is, after all, shared hosting, and I’m not exactly running anything mission critical here. (And I luckily had the foresight to have Google handle my e-mail. Privacy, smivacy, the NSA is looking at all this crap anyway.) But I do want to play around with Ruby on Rails some more, and Dreamhost just doesn’t seem like the place to go in that regard.

I do, however, blame the spammers. I’m certain that they’re responsible for the network slowness. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t just Dreamhost that was affected. A lot of other sites seemed to respond sluggishly this morning as well. My apache log files are saturated with apparent attempts to post spam comments and spam trackbacks.

I wish they could relax the law so that spammers were fair prey for vigilante justice. I would so take an aluminum bat to the head of a spammer. Seriously. I’m not usually a violent man, but these scum ruin the Internet for everyone.