DreamHost "solved" our problematic site by banning the search engine spiders from our site. Apparently we were being spidered too much so they changed the htaccess (without our knowledge) to ban them. But the site did stay up and I am sure we were using less resources after that. The site more or less dried up traffic wise.
"On paper, Porsche made between €30-40 billion in the affair. Once all is said and done, the actual profit is closer to some €6-12 billion. To put those numbers in perspective, Porsche’s revenue for the whole year of 2006 was a bit over €7 billion."
Just shows how out of whack the whole economy is in that Porsche could make more money for their shareholders by playing financial games then actually manufacturing products.