Comments disabled - blog engine and Irish hosting service advice anyone?

The reason why? My blog seems to make it onto a comment spam hit list yesterday and this morning I got a nice email from my hosting service indicating that my disk usage had noticably increased. Needless to say my poor blog had been overrun with spam last night - nice to see I’m moving up in the world.

The writeback plugin for Blosxom (the engine I’m using) is pretty dumb out-of-the-box so I just plugged it out for the moment - I’m going on holidays for two weeks and I don’t want to come back to another mess. All of this is a terrible shame as one of the most valuable things about blogging after all is public reader feedback.

Once I get back, I’ll switch the blog over to another engine, maybe Wordpress but then I’ll probably need a MySQL database. Pair Networks are great (uptime, support, advice is all fantastic) but their Advanced hosting package (the cheapest that offers MySQL database support) is a bit expensive for my needs.

If anyone has any advice to offer (esp with Irish hosting services) email me at “aehso at xlml dot com”. Thanks.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 blosxom

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