Saturday morning, I received an email from my hosting company telling me that they had shut down mamamusings.net due to “excessive load” issues, and that I needed to contact the abuse department to get things running again.
The culprit? Comment and trackback spam.
I have it all set to be moderated here, which means you seldom see it, but it’s been increasing at a depressing rate, and it takes a lot of time to clean out the trash sitting in the “unapproved” list every day.
For the time being, they’ve disabled the mt-trackback and mt-comment scripts, so that at least the content of the site is accessible. And I’ll start working on a solution. The easiest option would be to simply restrict commenting to users with TypeKey accounts. I hate to do that, but it may be my best option.
What I may try for the short term is a two-fold approach—renaming the script (so that it’s a little more work for the spambots to find it), and adding a CAPTCHA. Until I get that done, however, you won’t be able to comment here. :(
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