Been receiving emails from UptimeRobot for a few days saying that my site is down, then up again. I thought that my server was having issues, or that I was being sieged by scrapers again.

But today I found out that UptimeRobot is changing the IP addresses for their checkers and some of those IPs are in the StopForumSpam daily lists.

After getting the updated IP list from https://uptimerobot.com/help/locations/ and adding them to the allowlist of my firewall, the alerts are gone.

#stopforumspam #uptimerobot

Why? Why can't I register at #StopForumSpam ? Regardless of username, email address or IP I always get: "Account details blacklisted. Your details have been found in our database and thus are not allowed to register. This incident has been reported."

ARGH!

I think a good way of preventing spam in the future for the #Fediverse is to integrate #StopForumSpam, worked pretty well for Forums.

In the mean time, sysadmins can download the SFS IP List and add it to the their firewall's blocklist. The amount of attacks on my nginx server for example when waaaaay down after I did that.