The server damned near went down again, this time for the same reason as last: Someone out there thinks Mari’s site needs to be comment-spammed hard, fast and continuously. It’s not the spam itself that kills us, but rather the Perl threads and drive activity associated with the spamflooding.

I’ve taken some steps. For instance, commenting no longer takes place in a separate comment window. (There’s a geeky reason for that I won’t go into. Security through obscurity, or some-such.) We’ll see how effective they are, and for how long.

If this doesn’t work I’ll have to either turn off her comments or switch her to the comment script the rest of us are using. I’m averse to that solution mainly because she’ll lose all existing comments for good, and also because I don’t know if our comment system can survive a concerted attempt at spamming. I’m not in what you’d call a great big hurry to find out, you know?

Argh. Spammers die. Grrr.