Blackhacker

Lately I have been waging a war against a referrer spam. In particular against a notorious spammer, known to me only as “Jane Phill.” Just googling reveals that he has left his mark across the entire blogosphere. Never the less I think I have defeted him and have kept him from polluting my statitics with refferal from domains about viagra or texas-holdem (i wonder what kind of adds this post will generate )

“So B, How did you do it?”

Glad you asked.

Details are here.

Anyone who has a site that displays the TTLB Ecosystem status, or has visited one, knows that when TTLB slows down, every one slows down. This is a handy plugin I found on the WP-Plugin database that caches your status daily to a file. It both alliviates stress on TTLB and bullet proofs your site when TTLB is having a “growing pain.”