Hi Tris- yes I agree, that blogging platforms have to take the business critical nature of blogs seriously. Here at Blogware we have redeployed all of our development team for optimizations to ensure that Blogware is scalable and stable ALL of the time. This will mean published uptimes and performance you can depend on. Yes, the attacks of spam of many types are causing undue stress on our systems, but we consider that to be part of optimizations, to make defensive, and offensive changes. I am confident that these changes will make you pretty happy with us for the long term.