If you tried to access Consumerism Commentary today but couldn’t get through, I apologize. This site—and many of my websites sites hosted at DreamHost—are having server problems. Part of the problem is being bombarded with spam comments, in some cases a thousand per hour. While they don’t get published, they get evaluated like all other comments, and that takes processing power.
I’m looking for other solutions. Bear with me!
Update: DreamHost is upgrading the server that hosts this and many other websites—from a Pentium III 850 MHz with 1 GB RAM to a Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz with 2 GB RAM—since I’ve been “such a wonderful long-time customer.”
Mad props to DreamHost, who will make the transition within the hour. Now let’s see if this helps solve the problems.
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5:52 pm (reply)
I hear you Flexo. I also host on Dreamhost and get ridiculous amounts of spam. I have added Spam Karma and it has pretty much taken care of the problem, but I think it’s causing me DB issues. (The sheer amount of spam and the processing of each and storage of the logs).
Dreamhost also moved me and I’ve changed a few of the configs on Spam Karma and so far so good. All in all I’m happy with Dreamhost. They did take a while to respond after they took my site down, which aggravated me, but it’s all okay now.
7:15 pm (reply)
We seem to be flying, but for some reason parts of the site keep recerting back to the default WordPress theme. Always something…