Those spamming bastards were at it again - there were over a thousand vile spams on SVoC this morning. What was more, new ones were being added as fast as I could clear them out.
So, I disabled commenting altogether, backed everything up, and upgraded to MT 2.661 and installed MT-Blacklist.
All is not rosy. Comments seem to be given 500s rather a lot. This happened occasionally before, but it's even more frequent now. I'll have to take this up with my hosts, 1&1.
Posted to Blogs by Simon Brunning at June 07, 2004 04:38 PMTest comment. Does this show up? Will I get a 500? Do I care just right now?
Posted by: Simon Brunning on June 7, 2004 05:31 PMThat's a yes, yes and no, respectivly. I'll have to talk to 1&1...
Posted by: Simon Brunning on June 7, 2004 05:33 PMSee, it wasn't that hard was it. Lucky for you that you weren't too busy at work today ;-)
Posted by: Andy Todd on June 7, 2004 06:51 PMdo I get a 500?
Posted by: Mark Boyce on June 7, 2004 09:41 PMI could host you, if you want. We've got Python 2.2 and a tonne of modules, and can accomodate MT (heathen!). It's my server (um, my companies server).
Posted by: Aaron Brady on June 8, 2004 11:00 AMI don't.
Posted by: Sam Newman on June 8, 2004 11:03 AMThanks, Arron. I might just take you up on that.
I'm having no joy working out where all the 500s are coming from. It's certainly worse than it was before the upgrade - it's dying before rebuilding the entry now, so although the comments make it to the database, they don't make it to the HTML. Sigh.
I can't find any logs anywhere to tell me what's going on, either.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on June 8, 2004 11:31 AMI'm still getting 500s, and it's much worse than it was before I upgraded. It's not just showing the 500s not, it's also failing to rebuild the HTML (though the comments are saved to the database).
This seems to be a problem as 1and1's end, since I find other people reporting the same problem[1]. So, it looks like time for a new host.
[1] http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=38877&hl=1and1&s=1dae0ee081c42dac48d6d604d9fb4e92 and http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=37521&hl=comment,and,500&s=1dae0ee081c42dac48d6d604d9fb4e92
Posted by: Simon Brunning on June 8, 2004 12:25 PMDefinitely still lots of 500's... every time today, so far.
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