So I finally upgraded lightbody.net. It used to be a Pentium 166 or 266 (I forget) with 256MB of RAM and a 6GB hard drive. Today it is an AMD Athlon 2200, 512MB of RAM, and a 60GB hard drive. Woo hoo.
I mostly did this to make MT-Blacklist run faster. Comment spam is getting ridiculous on this server, and my blacklist was so damn large that my old machine took 20 minutes to apply all the patterns.
So I also upgraded to MT 3.1 and MT-Blacklist 2.0. Unfortunately, it appears that something is busted between those two and the fact that I’m running mod_perl (though turning off mod_perl didn’t seem to help). In short, I can’t even turn MT-Blacklist on. I click “activate” and then submit the form; then I get a page back saying the settings were saved sucessfully.
Except that none of the settings changed. Grrrrreeeeat.
I don’t want to add one of those plugins that requires a “security code”, mostly because I feel they are messed up for disabled people (not that I have any blind readers as far as I can tell).
Anyway, so my server is beefy but now I’m getting comment spammed to death. If anyone knows how to fix this, I’d be forever in your debt.
on Oct 22nd, 2004 at 1:04 pm
btw, I had mt-blacklist, but we were still getting armloads of comment spam. The security-code stuff has worked wonders to reduce spam. But, something in it also killed mt-blacklist. And now, we have to manually nuke comment spam that folks manually enter with a security code. Just my $0.02.