Spam problem causing hosting issues

  • I’ve been getting tons of spam recently which have been kept from appearing on my site by a combination of Akismet, Bad Behaviour and WP-SpamFree (I was using Spam Karma 2, but it slowed things down a lot).

    However, the sheer volume of comment spam has caused my host to suspend ftp access as the wp-comments-post.php file is taking up too much bandwidth on my account. According to the account I’m not allowed to:
    “Publish or run any script or item of content that causes server performance to decrease for other users. This might include resource intensive CGI or PHP files, busy forums or an extremely highly requested item of content.”

    I’ve never had this issue before so am reluctant to simply change hosts. Is there a way to slow down the script or better yet, to cut out the amount of spam being received without putting too much strain on the wp-comments-post.php?

    Anyone got any ideas?

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  • I’m curious who your web host is?

    It’s DreamHost, a support of spammers if they are their clients.

    Thread Starter bobweasel

    (@bobweasel)

    I’ve just moved to Dreamhost to avoid the problems I described above. I’m still getting tons of spam, but at least Dreamhost aren’t threatening to suspend the account.

    My previous host was UK based supanames on their value pro account. It wasn’t really set-up to cope with a wordpress install as I had to manually ask them to allow outgoing pings to things like akismet.

    So things are better, but I still get a deluge of spam. Any way to stop the bots before they reach my site?

    not really… not in any way that’s effective at least.

    Look at it this way, at least now you’re free to make a popular blog without your host getting jealous and shutting you down.

    Imagine that… most spam hits are actually lighter than regular users, so how many regular users would it have taken for them to kick you off?

    Perhaps they also hold you personally responsible for the number of hits you get from googlebot?

    What a bunch of tossers.

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