8 Jul
2026
8 Jul
'26
11:16 a.m.
Jul 7, 2026, 13:54 by cctalk(a)classiccmp.org:
I run www.punchcardarchive.com. It runs on a shared
server so I don’t worry too much about that stuff. My fun and games are defeating the bots
and useless messages from my Contact page. I have a homegrown captcha. I require Roman
characters. I added a honeypot field. I require a
I have most of my stuff in shared hosting as well these days. Can't really complain
about it. I have one or two compression bombs salted around my sites for the really
determined bots running around out there but so far a pretty extensive blocklist in
.htaccess has been sufficing.
I'm kind of surprised that hosting providers aren't offering stuff like Miasma
(https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma), go-away
(https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away), or iocaine
(https://git.madhouse-project.org/iocaine/iocaine) as a service to their customers. Then
again,
many providers have business arrangements with Cloudflare, which would preclude that.
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