Test of Cache Module

Testing, one, two, three, testing.

This is Tester, I test, my life is to test and without testing I do not exist

Hot shit, it's working great so far!

Damn, the site has been getting slammed by anonymous users the last week.  All the SEO has kicked the site up in the page rankings and last couple of days been averaging 6-10k hits a day from Yahoo and Google search results.  Anyway worked on getting static caches for anonymous users and all is well now, won't affect logged in members but anonymous visitors will be served static content which is cached on a 30 minute cycle.

Wew, was worried, RtH was getting the shit kicked out of it

So anyway if anyone has any problems let me know ASAP

I have the same issue at WADVPress. Most of them are from Russia. I'm about ready to blacklist that entire country. I am constantly deleting these "users". My filters catch most of them, but I still have to do the cleanup. What are you using to accomplish this?

I'm not using Wordpress, so I don't know what's really available there.  I use Drupal so the caching is different, as for security to block out countries I use iptables which I can block entire network ranges very easily.  Unless you're using a decent provider I don't believe you're going to be able to run iptables, you're going to need to look for a Wordpress module.

Most of the anonymous users here come in from Google and Yahoo search referrals, Bing is starting to come up also.  Anonymous hits are good, especially when search engines are referring uses to you.  But around Thursday RtH went from around 500 hits a day to now I'm seeing close to 10k now, we got slammed.  I found a cache module that generates static pages for anonymous users and this significantly took a huge load off of the site.

Thanks. Wordpress has a couple of utilities, Askimet and Spam Karma 2. Both work fine, but don't automatically delete everything unless they are Blacklisted. I'm about ready to blacklist Russia......

Countries I have black listed are Russia, China, Nigeria and Ukraine.  This significantly cut the brute force attacks, spam, etc. and dropped the server load also.  The advantage of using iptables is that it's blocked at layer 3 and not layer 7 so it's not only more secure but a lot less load on the server

That's a nice feature. Layer 3 is good. I also like to get Layer 7 involved since the inception of PHP. Both are loopholes.

But thanks for the tips. I'll do the same on my website. Russia has been very active this past month.

I also very highly recommend Mollom, there's a Wordpress plugin for it.  It's simply the best anti spam you will find.

I'll stick with mine for now. I took a closer look at it today and it also has layer 3 protection. So, I used it, along with your suggestions about the other countries besides Russia. All of a sudden, it's quieted down a bit!