Feeding time at the spammer zoo


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I am the creator of CommentLuv Premium
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You can get your own content published on this site as long as you have CommentLuv installed on your site.

Doing so means you get exposure to thousands and thousands of other CommentLuv users and your posts get sent out to the massive subscriber list.

Google loves this site and indexes it multiple times per day and posts always get lots of comments so you can be sure of some excellent exposure.

See the Write For Us page for more details

btw.. you can get this author box here

Every time a comment is made on any CommentLuv enabled site (over 100,000 at last count) means the ComLuv server has to do the checking, searching, fetching and sending back of a feed for every request. With normal comments from normal people, it handles everything just fine and processes over a million comments a month, making a lot of people feel the luv.

The problem comes when the spammers get running and scraping a whole lot of blogs with old wordpress versions or bot-friendly comment forms with the CommentLuv plugin still installed. When that happens, the Comluv server can get hit a thousand times a minute with requests for a feed on a site that has not got one or has a badly formed file. That literally kills the server!

Fighting

the spammers has been an almost full time job, I have missed so many deadlines for the plugin because I had to secure the server again or figure out how to filter away the bad requests or learn how to configure the Mysql server so it can handle so many connections on a database that has thousands of new rows inserted every hour.

This is why I’ve had to do a mass clear out of spam blogs created here and put in a new routine to ban any url that results in a feed error 3 times or more. I’ve also put in some checks and other space and bandwidth saving measures and hope this will take care of things for a while. Oh gawd I hope so!

I’ll get some tutorials up soon on how to troubleshoot your feed if you’re getting an error and how to unban your site once you get your feed sorted out but if you’re having troubles right now, submit a support ticket and I’ll see what I can do for you..