I’ve been thinking about my blog again lately. To my horror, when I tried to log in to write something, the back-end had shut down. I experienced this a couple of years ago with my original retiform site. That site was based on the post-nuke CMS engine and I found that it was brought down by spammers/hackers, etc.

I tried to do some repairs to get retiform back up and running - it was in archive mode after all - but to no avail.

This time, I crossed my fingers, backed up my db and went on the repair run. Thankfully, I was able to restore DOFK. However, I found that the db had been bloated to over 20MEG of spam comments! I think that the spam had actually got to such a magnitude that it actually caused the system to topple over.

I’ve now taken measures to limit the spam comments - at the expense of convenience for the users of the site. Unfortunately, these measure are necessary. Unfortunate also is the fact that I have had to jettison all the previous genuine comments from the blog, so sorry to all those who had left comments.