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Tru2Chevy · 03-25-2013, 07:26 PM

No hacks!

The issue that started early this morning and kept us down for several hours had to do with a change I made to the server firewall yesterday afternoon. We are getting dozens of spam signups a day, and Bonzo, WBT, and I are going nuts trying to keep up (as we personally approve every account before they have the ability to post - keeping the incidences of spam VERY low here).

Turns out that the way I went about attempting to block all registrations coming from certain countries was far more server intensive than I thought, and the firewall software was struggling to keep up, so after talking to the support team at our webhost I backed out the changes I made yesterday and am coming up with a new plan to keep the crazy spammers out.

- Justin

03-25-2013, 07:26 PM	#19
Tru2Chevy Co-Founder / Site Admin Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ewing, NJ Posts: 22,473 iTrader: (8) Social Networks:	No hacks! The issue that started early this morning and kept us down for several hours had to do with a change I made to the server firewall yesterday afternoon. We are getting dozens of spam signups a day, and Bonzo, WBT, and I are going nuts trying to keep up (as we personally approve every account before they have the ability to post - keeping the incidences of spam VERY low here). Turns out that the way I went about attempting to block all registrations coming from certain countries was far more server intensive than I thought, and the firewall software was struggling to keep up, so after talking to the support team at our webhost I backed out the changes I made yesterday and am coming up with a new plan to keep the crazy spammers out. - Justin __________________ 1999 Camry - Beigemobile DD 2002 Suburban - Wife's DD 2004 Grand Cherokee - Not running / Project / Selling?