:-)

If you are getting so many legitimate hits that you are overwhelming your giant bit cruncher, fed with the latest light speed ethernet, you might consider selling out to someone who knows how to handle it. :-)

Like the saying in the old west: There will always be someone faster in this game. Thats what IBM, and the plethora of Cloud Server providers are for. They have air-conditioned rooms full of racks of the fastest equipment hooked directly into whatever is the internet backbone. You won't even have to buy any equipment, they will sell you so many Mips/per_month on a virtual machine, and they will determine at which giant data center the Mips get run at, assuring you of no roadblocks, and protecting you from DOS attacks and storm failures. Now thats what I call fast.

Your site content must be pretty awesome to get that many hits, unless it's just a Denial of Service Attack, which you, I presume, would somehow get, and blame on Perl. :-)

By the way Logicus, can you be faster than the Cosmos itself, as it transforms from one instance of Time to the next? Om.