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Testing MT upgrade …

Testing an upgrade of MT that I’m making to try to solve my comment spam problems. I’m going from 3.15 to 3.35, and I’m somewhat astounded by how easy the upgrade has been thus far. I’m going to turn comments back on, too. When I turned comments off under the previous version, I watched my […]

Testing an upgrade of MT that I’m making to try to solve my comment spam problems. I’m going from 3.15 to 3.35, and I’m somewhat astounded by how easy the upgrade has been thus far. I’m going to turn comments back on, too.

When I turned comments off under the previous version, I watched my CPU usage drop from as much as 45 minutes a day to 20 seconds a day, so comment spam attempts hitting my database clearly were the culprit. I’m hoping this install of MT will minimize the problem. I’ve also changed a few default setting to try to further dodge the comment spammers. We’ll see …

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