Author: mysteryman

Spam In Decline?

spam_countsI tallied up my spam counts for the last 20 months (Jan 2015 through Aug 2016) to one of my most spammed at email addresses and plotted this simple graph. Incoming spam seems to be on a sharp decline over the last year.  The high was over 2000 messages in August 2015 and the low of under 50 for the most recent month, August 2016. That’s from nearly 70 a day to less then 2 a day!

All the first ten months of the data were higher then all of the last ten months. I can’t correlate this drop with any configuration change on the server. This leaves me wondering if spam has finally moved onto social media and other delivery methods and given up on email.

 

APIs APIs APIs.. Oh My

While testing WordPress (again) I discover that a WordPress site has an API to it enabled by default because… why? Doesn’t the whole world needs access to which themes are installed and what not? Sheesh…

Although an API to your WP site is very cool on some levels, at least for developers, most people don’t even know what an API is. I’ll be turning this feature off until I need it (which could happen).  And I’ll also disable it’s older cousin ‘XML-RPC’ which I can’t imagine a worthy use for. WordPress doesn’t make turning these things off easy either. It’s not hard but you do have to edit actual code to do it.

You Wont Believe The 5 Amazing Topics this BLOG will Cover (Number 4 will knock your socks off!)

Yes I know, I’ve started yet another WordPress blog. This one has a purpose though, really, honest! Here are the amazing topics that will be covered in posts here.

  1. Server and hosting news, especially as it relates to the webapp and hosting services that I am involved with.
  2. Software coding and scripting, especially as it relates to the servers and webapps I work on and maintain.
  3. We’ll also take some deep dives, drilling down to our core competency to find the value added holistic analytics that’s part of our DNA. There we will visualize the mashup of the internet of things and agile devOp frameworks amid the technological convergence of sustainable innovation melded by the power to leverage mission critical big data and brand the mindshare all around the next generation of buzzwords.
  4. And also cats! There goes Lefty with something in his mouth! (Is that one of your socks?)
  5. Finally, anything else I decide to talk about.

That’s all for now