Hello MusicLover,
The Christians Unite server does provide services to thousands of Christian web sites, but it is big enough to do that without any problem.
I think that most of the server slow downs are caused by what is called "spam-bots or mail-bots". These are computers running on autopilot trying to harvest private email information for advertising. They can easily generate thousands of requests at a time to the system they are trying to get the information from. ADMIN has Christians Unite set to give them absolutely nothing. If you look at a raw web page in HTML format, you will see all kinds of things that are not displayed to folks browsing the site. On many of them, you can actually get private information that was not intended to be shown to the public. Your private information on Christians Unite is locked and safe from folks who want to send you tons of advertising. However, this locking does slow the system down while spam or mail-bots are sending thousands of requests, over and over again, to get the information.
There might be a rather rude method of dealing with these spam and mail-bots on some systems. You design a page to give them thousands or hundreds of thousands of bogus names and emails. This doesn't work on all systems, and it might cause more problems that what it is worth with some systems. However, giving the spam-bots thousands of false names and emails seems fitting.
This actually ruins the rest of their list they got by doing the same thing all over the Internet.
Love In Christ,
Tom
