Interesting experiment with spam blocking

  • Resolved mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    Nospam NX works for us, it blocks more than 2,000 spambots a day. But getting our pages hit by spambots more than once a minute definitely uses server resources, which in our case we pay good money for. I was wondering if there was a way to stop the bots as soon as they hit the site instead of letting them start crawling the page looking for comment form. They’d still use server resources, but not near as much. As an experiment, I downloaded and installed the .htaccess blacklist from these guys:

    https://myip.ms/browse/blacklist/Blacklist_IP_Blacklist_IP_Addresses_Live_Database_Real-time

    Amazingly, for the last 48 hours the spambot hits on our site reported by NospamNX dropped from our 2,000+ a day to ZERO. I have to say that not in a million years did I suspect a blacklist would be that effective.

    At any rate, just some info for all you comment spam fighters out there. We still like NospamNX and will keep it live for final defense, but the blacklist referenced above blocks the spambots before they ever even see your website.

    MTN

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/nospamnx/

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  • Thread Starter mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)

    Well, it’s been a month and NospamNX has NOT HAD TO BLOCK A SINGLE SPAMBOT. If your site is getting slammed by bots, try the blacklist I referenced above, works amazingly well. I haven’t even updated the blacklist. I’m leaving NospamNX running as a backstop, but it appears to be unnecessary. MTN

    Handoko

    (@handoko-zhang)

    Interesting, thanks for sharing the information.

    But the blacklist reference is huge, would it cause extra server load because of the large size of .htacess?

    I personally use NoSpamNX + Bad Behavior. So far, they work well.

    Thread Starter mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)

    Last time I tried Nospam NX it appeared to not be working with WordPress 3.9 I’ve since uninstalled it and am just using the blacklist. I’m not sure what creates the most server load. If the bot is blocked at .htaccess it never touches the site, but I’m told that actually might be a slow way to block and PHP might be faster. Typical WordPress requiring us to figure this kind of arcane stuff out instead of creating content like we’re supposed to be doing. I’m so tired. MTN

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