Is my forum on the right VPS?

[MattW]

It's spam issue. My site went up for a few hours and now I have 96 registrations awaiting approval and almost all are spam. Do spam target sites specifically? Why would it be my forum?

They are targeting your forum because you are a forum. It will be XRumer hammering it.

 

[Jeffin]

I'm now looking for a good anti-spam addon. I don't mind paying for it because otherwise I will end paying for hosting resources. Servint has removed my site from VPS and quarantined it. Apparently its affecting other websites on the same server.

 

[TPerry]

I'm now looking for a good anti-spam addon. I don't mind paying for it because otherwise I will end paying for hosting resources. Servint has removed my site from VPS and quarantined it. Apparently its affecting other websites on the same server.

Two best choices are either @tenants or @sonnb utilities. I prefer tenants suite because it has the image captcha that you can customize, foolhoneypot, facebook anti-spam logon, StopCountrySpam when you purchase the full deal. His support is also top-notch.

 

[MattW]

I'm also using the full TAC collection from @tenants and it works perfectly.

 

[Jeffin]

I'm also using the full TAC collection from @tenants and it works perfectly.

And TAC is a collection of all his anti-spam addons. I'm going to give it a try.

 

[MattW]

And TAC is a collection of all his anti-spam addons. I'm going to give it a try.

Sure it

Free version: [url]http://xenforo.com/community/resources/tac-tenants-anti-spam-collection-anti-spam-free-version.1474/[/URL]
Paid Version: http://xenforo.com/community/resour...ollection-anti-spam-complete-collection.1469/

 

[Jeffin]

If you aren't already using it, I suggest trying @tenants free version of his spam prevention suite (FoolBotHoneyPot, his imgcaptcha, AnyApi and StopHumanSpam primarily). It stops a all the spam registration attempts at the front door on my sites.

I have installed @tenants FoolBotHoneyPot add-on and so far not one spam registration got through. It's simply awesome! The spam bot hammering is still going on which I am still trying to resolve.

 

[TPerry]

I have installed @tenants FoolBotHoneyPot add-on and so far not one spam registration got through. It's simply awesome! The spam bot hammering is still going on which I am still trying to resolve.

You are going to get hit... and if it is from the same IP range then you can always put a DROP rule in iptables for that block. Now you see why I really like his utility.
Another option to look at is http://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php - it is a script that you run on the front end and it checks even before the forum software runs. It CAN be a little "restrictive" and give false positives (in fact, it even told @tenants one time that he wasn't allowed to register on my site). It is also configured strictly by command line utilities.

 

[TPerry]

I have installed @tenants FoolBotHoneyPot add-on and so far not one spam registration got through. It's simply awesome! The spam bot hammering is still going on which I am still trying to resolve.

I really like the StopHumanSpam also. I recently had a user register on the site and he was "asking about buying my style since he really liked it" and was attempting to link to his site. Due to restrictions I have in place via SHS he was unable to and it showed up in the error log.

Funny aside on it - he's running (just starting) an IPB site. Told him the first thing he'd have to do to use the style I had was purchase xenForo.

 

[Jeffin]

I really like the StopHumanSpam also. I recently had a user register on the site and he was "asking about buying my style since he really liked it" and was attempting to link to his site. Due to restrictions I have in place via SHS he was unable to and it showed up in the error log.

Funny aside on it - he's running (just starting) an IPB site. Told him the first thing he'd have to do to use the style I had was purchase xenForo.

 

[Jeffin]

Server load problem is almost resolved. There's are still some issues remaining. But thank you guys for responding and offering me suggestions @Moshe1010 , @Jesepi , @Tracy Perry , @Floren , @WSWD , @Carlos and @MattW . You guys are awesome!!

 

[WSWD]

Good to hear you have everything almost under control! Woo hoo!