I got an email late last week from my hosting provider (Dreamhost) Apparently there was something going on with my database that was causing a spike on the db server. They opted to just disable my site on Friday. Well, I started getting a little frustrated when I hadn’t heard anything by Saturday night. By monday, I was getting mad. It just kind of struck me as bad business to take my site down and then go home for the weekend. Then, when I hadn’t heard back by Monday night, I decided to see if I could get the site back up myself.
The fact that you are reading this indicates I was successful. They had removed my DB account so that my site couldn’t reach it. I managed to get it set back up and then did a little detective work. I believe the original issue was caused by my spam filter. (Spamkarma). I made a few tweeks to it, and also reverted to an earlier database. Hopefully that will do the trick. I’ve still yet to hear about any resolution from my hosting provider. Argghhh.
If my site drops off the face of the earth again, rest assured, I’ll be trying my best to get it right back up. In the meantime, I’d appreciate it if you’d call all your spammer friends and tell them to quit hitting my site!
What did you do to SpamKarma in terms of tweaks? I’d hate to have the same thing happen to me.
I set it up to purge spam within 2 days, instead of 5. And cleaned out most of the old spam in the DB.