{"id":10414,"date":"2007-01-24T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T18:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/01\/24\/reducing-server-load.html"},"modified":"2007-01-24T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T18:52:04","slug":"reducing_server_load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/reducing_server_load.html","title":{"rendered":"Reducing server load"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got an e-mail from the good people at Hosting Matters<\/a> over the weekend that comment spam activities on my blog were causing some significant server hits, with suggestions on what to do about it.<\/p>\n

I already run AutoBan<\/a>, a fine MT plug-in that, as soon a someone files a comment identified as “junk” throws up a temporary IP blog for the page, preventing them from trying again (with trivial load on the servers in so doing, unlike most of the other anti-spam solutions). Granted, IP addresses can be spoofed, but it’s at least some help against some comment spammers.<\/p>\n

There was also a suggestion to fix the way comments.cgi is invoked by TypeKey-enabled blogs<\/a> (like this one). I’ve also now implemented that, which should help all-around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got an e-mail from the good people at Hosting Matters over the weekend that comment spam activities on my blog were causing some significant server hits, with suggestions on what…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11942,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/back_on_the_spam_front_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":10414,"position":0},"title":"Back on the Spam front …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Dec-07 8:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been working with the Hosting Matters folks to get FastCGI up and running on the server I'm on.\u00a0 The biggest problem (from a spam perspective) that Movable Type...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"spam","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/spam.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11939,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/back_on_the_spam_front.html","url_meta":{"origin":10414,"position":1},"title":"Back on the Spam front …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Dec-07 10:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been working with the Hosting Matters folks to get FastCGI up and running on the server I'm on.\u00a0 The biggest problem (from a spam perspective) that Movable Type...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"spam","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/spam.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8227,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/spam_spam_spam.html","url_meta":{"origin":10414,"position":2},"title":"Spam, spam, spam, spam …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Jan-06 6:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My Internet host, Hosting Matters, is rolling out a new anti-spam system to its various servers, and it finally got to mine. 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