My web host has informed me that the server CPU load hit 99.9% because of trackback spam sent to this website.
If it continues tomorrow (which is likely), my account will be suspended indefinitely. I have to do a lot of things to fix it and back up all my data. And that of everyone else hosted on my account.
See you around – hopefully when I’m next back online.
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You could just rename the trackback CGI to something else, and then the CPU load should go down, don’t you think? It’s cheaper to serve 404s than to run a CGI; no extra processes spawning.
Hey Ralph, that’s what I did in the end. Was too lazy to do anything else more drastic 😛