You've Probably Notice: Comments Are Off & Chattablogs Was Down This Morning
As far as we can tell, at the most 2 comment spammers blasted Baltiblogs today, trying to hit it in the thousands and tens of thousands with comment spam.
Our servers can handle no problem roughly 500-750 comment requests a second. We can't handle more than that without the server locking up. Well, these spamming pricks hit us with 10 times that amount. And all on just a few blogs on Baltimore Blogs. It looks like they may of had some beef with some of those bloggers.
So, we had to disable comments for a bit, and we're putting together a script that should be running in the next 20 minutes or so that will stop them. Thanks to everyone's help we've gotten a fairly decent grasp on most spam, nothing staying on a blog for more than a day or so. What we can't really handle is these Denial of Service type spam attacks. I can't imagine that its being done for purely economic reasons (i.e., getting the spam links up) because when they overload the servers it keeps them from putting up their comments. So it seems like they're just being jerks.
Ah well, the war continues. Sorry for the inconvenience folks.
Josiah Q. Roe | By Josiah Roe | 4:18 PM
Comments
Bastards. Spamming should be given the death penalty.
Posted by: tanderson at December 27, 2004 6:56 PM
