Yes, comment spam is the reason the site keeps going away from time to time. It’s basically DDOS by comment spam. We’re working to put up some measures to stop it.
Social 2.5
I’m very pleased to share version 2.5 of Social with you. Brought to you by our good friends at MailChimp (see their blog post), Social is a…
Doesn’t Akismet take care of most of it? I still get maybe 10 spam comments a day, but it is definitely manageable.
By the time that this level of spam attack reached Apache, you’re already dead. If it reached all the way through WP to Akismet, you’d be doubly dead.
Alex, the “Type notspam” field you have added to your comments form… is that some kind of MOD that’s available?
Is it working for you?
Sorry, mine isn’t available but lots of similar plugins are available.