Just received this email from DreamHost:
I’m writing to regretfully inform you that we have decided to end our
business relationship with you.
One of the main reasons is that your site ‘mtdewvirus.com’ is pretty much
100% 24 hours a day getting hit with comment spam and consuming vast
amounts of resources on our servers. Attempts have been made to mitigate
and stop the attacks, but they are futile. At this point, we really
can’t justify expending any more resources with this issue, so we’ve
decided it is in the best interests of all parties involved that we
terminate the relationship.
Per the “Termination” section of our terms of service available at
http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html, we are hereby giving you a 30 day
notice before your account is closed, so you can make arrangements for
hosting elsewhere and get your files and databases moved.
DreamHost Quoted
So…I need a new web host. Any suggestions? The spam isn’t getting through to my site, but it’s obviously attacking the server where I’m hosted. This is most likely going to follow me wherever I go, so I may have to re-evaluate what I want to do with some of my blogs.
Update: Yesterday DreamHost changed their mind and took back the 30 day notice. They are going to try and come up with something to block the attacks before they hit Apache.
