Bad Behaviour causes problems
Sunday, 12 November 2006
Like many online systems I have installed a couple of anti-spam controls on my site.
First one is Akismet, powered by the Wordpress API (you’ll need to get an API id from wordpress.org to use that)
Next up is Spam Karma 2 and what that doesn’t nail to the wall nothing will. The Anti-Spam features in that are excellent, it also has a plugin to use Akismet so you don’t need to have the above one installed to use them both = better performance.
And Bad Behaviour, a good set of spam filters in competition with Spam Karma, however last night I had a few problems (well, i was testing it out); the system had managed to blacklist me so i couldn’t get into my admin system; oh dear, obviously a mistake but after speaking to the good guys at TextDrive they soon helped me find the problem factor and remove it.
Now things are working better, and I’ve optimized the database, removed any dead tables and unused indexes, suddenly everythings working much much faster.
Enjoy, there was work involved.
;-)
… update … now works fine