I’m seriously thinking about giving this up. Why you ask? I’ve let the bastards get me down, that’s why?
This morning I was greeted with another “The domain mr-miata.net has reached 80% of its bandwidth limit. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible.” emails. Between yesterday and the first third of today over 5-1/2 Gigs of bandwidth was sucked up by referrer spam from porno sites trying to increase their page rankings by leaving their demon seed behind. That is more than half of my alloted 10 Gigs a month transfer limit.
So I spent an hour or so going through the raw access logs and adding about 20 IP addresses to the deny list. I did this a month ago and now they are back with doubled efforts. For now I seem to have quelled the tide again, but next month they’ll be back, probably with again double the IPs…
Maybe if I tried a different blogging software. I have used Greymatter and Pivot before, don’t remember about GM, but pivot suffered from referrer spam too. I could step backwards and return to blogger, nah, probably not that option. WordPress…maybe. Time to learn another templating system…I don’t know
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 299
Have you thought of using Haloscan for commenting. If you donate they’ll email comments to you. That’s never been something I worried about, and I don’t have any issues with spam, at least I haven’t yet.
It is not comment spam, it is failed comment spam. I’ve got a MT plug in that closes comments after 10 days and that has eliminated that problem. These are called referrer spam because it ends up in your site’s access log…
I’m thinking of moving to WordPress. They have a plug in that is supposed to eliminate the referrer spam.
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