As Paul mentions, it is free so not sure what people are complaining about re the “for profit”, etc. Sure there is a paid solution for enterprises but you need to understand the extreme costs of running a free service. I do ( free service I ran: http://www.infohole.com/blog/about ).

Gordon

The post was simply to say that when I activated Akismet, my blog started acting normal again.
Is this shady snake-oil PR? No. I didn’t pay for Akismet, nor do you have to if you want to use it. But, if this post convinced at least one more person to activate this plug-in then I am glad, because the guys made a great tool and its FREE!
As I said earlier, there might have been a coincidence in how the events took place, but it is not going to make me take my post down, so people like you can feel better about themselves proving people wrong.

Paul, there is insinuation in your story of Akismet’s “connection blocking” helping speed up your site. Your comments in this thread clearly show that you understand that this is not actually the case, so it would only be fair to prospective Akismet customers that you insert some clarification. As it stands, this story serves only to discredit you and Akismet both.

I saw that there are up to 20 million spams a day blocked on akismet. There are 1.7 trillion spam messages blocked by akismet so far.

I think it’s unacceptable and something should be done against these spammers but the question is what… how can we block them all?

All other blogs on the same box were performing just fine so it couldn’t have been the Apache settings; therefore, I didn’t even consider caching.