Due to massive spam submissions to Drupal Top Sites and traffic generated by top performers current server is not capable to handle this load. The main issue is that the other sites hosted on the same machine are in danger. So it is throttled from now and there may be some outages. Sorry for this. Realy.
But thanks to dreamhost who still tolerate such load on a shared host.
The plan is to move the site to another server or find some cure for submission spam or ... finally move top sites to Drupal but it needs a new module. All three solutions are currently in works.
Some current statistics (per day):
Successful requests: 216,757
Successful requests for pages: 151,798
Failed requests: 49,741 (this is the part of filtered spam sites)
Distinct hosts served: 54,242
Data transferred: 144.17 megabytes
Any help or ideas are appreciated.
...on top.drupalsite.net. Please get back to me at caleb.gilbert at gmail dot com if you are currently accepting new ads.
Thanx.
Caleb