For those who are interested, in the five days my site has been at my new web host, mod_security has successfully repelled 384,360 spam comment attacks on the site. That’s over 76,000 per day. And while I’ve done all I can to thwart them, I feel really powerless and frustrated by this. Whoever is doing this: YOU REALLY SUCK.
Important Note
This site features content going all the way back to 2000. The posts you’ll read reflect my views and writing style at the time. While I have gone back to clean up a few of them, I think it’s important not to sanitise too much. This site is a record of who I am and how I’ve grown. Any blog post written years ago may not reflect who I am today, nor how I would write about the same topic today.
Comments
2 responses to “DDOS attack update”
I don’t know if someone already suggested this, but it could be related to the subtitle of your site up at the top (I don’t want to say it lest I get blocked myself)– perhaps someone in that business with a similar URL wants your domain…
Interesting theory. You’d think they’d have sent me a demand note, then. Otherwise not sure what they’d expect to get out of it. I’ve already renewed for a couple more years, I think, so they’d be sitting around for a while waiting for it to expire…