Title: Spam problem causing hosting issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Spam problem causing hosting issues

 *  [bobweasel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobweasel/)
 * (@bobweasel)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problem-causing-hosting-issues/)
 * I’ve been getting tons of spam recently which have been kept from appearing on
   my site by a combination of Akismet, Bad Behaviour and WP-SpamFree (I was using
   Spam Karma 2, but it slowed things down a lot).
 * However, the sheer volume of comment spam has caused my host to suspend ftp access
   as the wp-comments-post.php file is taking up too much bandwidth on my account.
   According to the account I’m not allowed to:
    “Publish or run any script or item
   of content that causes server performance to decrease for other users. This might
   include resource intensive CGI or PHP files, busy forums or an extremely highly
   requested item of content.”
 * I’ve never had this issue before so am reluctant to simply change hosts. Is there
   a way to slow down the script or better yet, to cut out the amount of spam being
   received without putting too much strain on the wp-comments-post.php?
 * Anyone got any ideas?

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 *  [cnymike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cnymike/)
 * (@cnymike)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problem-causing-hosting-issues/#post-724430)
 * I’m curious who your web host is?
 *  [macsoft3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macsoft3/)
 * (@macsoft3)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problem-causing-hosting-issues/#post-724431)
 * It’s DreamHost, a support of spammers if they are their clients.
 *  Thread Starter [bobweasel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobweasel/)
 * (@bobweasel)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problem-causing-hosting-issues/#post-724432)
 * I’ve just moved to Dreamhost to avoid the problems I described above. I’m still
   getting tons of spam, but at least Dreamhost aren’t threatening to suspend the
   account.
 * My previous host was UK based [supanames](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problem-causing-hosting-issues/www.supanames.co.uk/?output_format=md)
   on their [value pro account](http://www.supanames.com/hosting/linux/valuepro).
   It wasn’t really set-up to cope with a wordpress install as I had to manually
   ask them to allow outgoing pings to things like akismet.
 * So things are better, but I still get a deluge of spam. Any way to stop the bots
   before they reach my site?
 *  [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/)
 * (@ivovic)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problem-causing-hosting-issues/#post-724433)
 * not really… not in any way that’s effective at least.
 * Look at it this way, at least now you’re free to make a popular blog without 
   your host getting jealous and shutting you down.
 * Imagine that… most spam hits are actually lighter than regular users, so how 
   many regular users would it have taken for them to kick you off?
 * Perhaps they also hold you personally responsible for the number of hits you 
   get from googlebot?
 * What a bunch of tossers.

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 * Last reply from: [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problem-causing-hosting-issues/#post-724433)
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