This site may go down

March 31, 2006 1:47 PM | Comments (2)

My web host has informed me that the server CPU load hit 99.9% because of trackback spam sent to this website.

If it continues tomorrow (which is likely), my account will be suspended indefinitely. I have to do a lot of things to fix it and back up all my data. And that of everyone else hosted on my account.

See you around - hopefully when I'm next back online.

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By ralph on April 1, 2006 12:32 AM

You could just rename the trackback CGI to something else, and then the CPU load should go down, don't you think? It's cheaper to serve 404s than to run a CGI; no extra processes spawning.

By vantan on April 1, 2006 9:55 AM

Hey Ralph, that's what I did in the end. Was too lazy to do anything else more drastic :-P

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