Wordpress beefs up servers, data centers
Blog company Wordpress has beefed up its server farm and spread out into three data centers according to Barry at Wordpress. The company has spent the past month moving out of a facility in San Diego and moving into two facilities in Texas and one in San Fran. The company has standardized on HP’s rack machines, the bulk of which are AMD-based HP Proliant DL145 servers.
The new racks will also power Wordpress’ sister company, Askimet, a blog comment spam filtration tool. Interesting note: Askimet predicts that 95% of all blog comments are spam — I estimate that I delete a spam comment about every two hours.
Posted: April 16th, 2007 under x86 servers, Web 2.0.
Mind you, my website is a murky shallow backwater with about a dozen active readers, but I found that turning off pings and trackbacks across the board pretty much stopped spam in its tracks. I have my commentators register and login too. I see zero spam comments.
The linking mechanisms built into blogging tools are just plain poorly designed. The benefits of them (page and technorati ranks) are NOT worth the hassle of comment spam. If your stuff is good, people WILL find it. In other words, why swim in sewage?
–chuck
Comment by chuck goolsbee — April 16, 2007 @ 6:37 pm