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« on: June 08, 2011, 01:29:24 pm »
Don't know if this interests you guys, but I just saw this on slashdot and thought it was pretty cool. Clouflare helps improve the speed of your website and in the mean time combat spam and the likes. It's easy to set up and free, so I put it on my blog and it appears to give a little difference.

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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2011, 02:19:34 pm »
I would advise people to read the terms & conditions very carefully. They can modify your links to add their own trackers and affiliates (spam) and add scripts to your site for "other services" (spamming).
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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2011, 02:46:49 pm »
Thanks for the tip, but I don't like the sound of what squarebear mentions.

This site is pretty quick at the moment I find anyway.  We already have a lot of anti spam measures in place as it is and they seem to be working well enough.

Thanks for your thoughts though  O0

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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2011, 02:59:55 pm »
@Squarebear: I think you are missing the point. The service originates from an MIT project that was originally set up exactly to combat spam, called project honeypot. Here's the article that I found on slashdot: http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/07/cloudflare-a-website-security-product-accidentally-makes-sites-60-faster/
I think it's supposed to collect info on the spammers in order to combat them, not be a spammer.

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« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2011, 03:22:55 pm »
Ah! project Honeypot, yes I use that, what it does is help stop some of the many spam bots trawling your site, keeps monthly bandwidth down.

Actually Freddy put me on to it and I like it.

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Re: cloudflare
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2011, 03:35:17 pm »
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This site is pretty quick at the moment I find anyway.
That's true, this is one of the fastest forums I have come across.   

I do get a lot of spam though on my website.
What the service also does for instance, is hide all the email addresses on your site so that they are harder to collect by spam bots and the like (this is the 'changing of the links').
It also integrates nicely with my wordpress blog and the anti-spam + speed up plugins available for it (but that's only relevant for wordpres users of course).

 


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