Author: Bob Benz

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So I upgraded Movable Type, but it did nothing to deter spam. They found it almost immediately, even with directories named differently. So I’m now trying Real Comment Throttle to see if I can stop them from hammering the server so hard that my ISP sends me warning notices saying my CPU use is too high.

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 …