me to believe their purpose isn't commercial. This evening's most recent poor performance was thanks to www.sportjp.com, Shepherd Blalock of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, prop., offering fine web pages like http://www.sportjp.com/sports-betting-lines-las-vegas-odds.html. The overload comes from mulple hits on the front page within a few seconds from Shepherd's bots -- each of them with a cloaked IP -- which drives the number of connections over the max and eats up available memory.
Prior to Shepherd today we had identical appearances by bettingme.com (Daphine Mosher, of Forence, SC, prop., with pages like http://www.bettingme.com/online-sports-betting-line-horseracing.html), homewis.com(Josie Chester, of Fairview Park, OH, with http://www.homewis.com/do-home-insurance-claims-increase-rates.html, for example), pharmaopps.com (Lane Lamere, of St. Augustine, FL), rxonlinecenter.net (RegistrarAds, Inc, of Vancouver, WA), and insurancekon.com (at least Nia Weller of Kissimmee, FL, is honest about it.
Presumably these upstanding citizens sign up with some sort of service which promotes their fine products by getting them positions in other people's logs and somehow gives them better Google rankings. Or something. I remember reading something once upon a time on the subject, but I don't remember the details. I don't care. I'm just busy trying to design a filter to kill them all.