Back to normal... kind of.

After the spam attack we had last week things are slowly getting back to normal.

It has nothing to do with spammer giving us a break, what really happened is that I changed the blog signup page, (to be a bit more user friendly), and the various spam bots that have been flooding us are now hitting the wrong page(s).
I fear that once those bots are updated we will be hit with the same amount of spam. But I will deal with it has it happens, (I am watching the events very closely).

I know I have said it many times before, but I am very happy with the way our own anti-spam bot is working, it is catching a huge amount of spam, a vast amount of accounts are flagged a 'untrustworthy' by the system and I not getting the search engine links they so desperately want.

I am manually looking at all the accounts created, but +7000 accounts were created, (and I have automatically disabled +3000), so I still have to remove a lot of them.

I am also very happy with the way the system itself handled the attack, the front page went down once or twice, (under the load), but I have learned from it and we should now be able to handle further such attacks.
Those of you that have been around for a long time will know how badly the server used to behave under higher than normal loads.

All this has taken me away from the other improvements I have been working on, so, sadly there isn't much else new happening in the development front.

Let me know if you have any issues you want me to look at...

13h14 - 7/23/2011 - post comment

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