Thankyou for your help and

kht — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:13:09 +0000

Thankyou for your help and suggestions. The submissions seem to have stopped over the past week and I am in the process of redesiging and organising the website in order to migrate it to a new host and hosting plan (the site is http://www.karenhilltribes.org.uk if you want to have a look).

Thanks again for all your help and I will ensure I add a captcha thing to the forms when I migrate the site across.

On a side note, any suggestions for a good host for a small sized charity with a shop would be well considered

Thanks again!

I used to get quite a bit of

COSSOFT — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:07:09 +0000

I used to get quite a bit of similar crap. Some of it was readable and some not - I guess that not all of the spam bots work equally well.

In the end I went for a captcha thingie. Wrote it myself, and whilst the greatest minds in the scientific community might eventually crack it after many years of effort, it's stopped the bots in their tracks

Try Googling "recaptcha" for something a little better.

Well, firstly it's not a

greg — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:31:00 +0000

Well, firstly it's not a Dos/DDoS. A DoS is a Denial Of Service, which isn't anything related to spamming website forms or forum posts, it's about (basically) sending so much data to a server that it overloads the server and the server will crash. "Denying service" as a downed server cannot serve websites.

"Distributed" (DDoS) means the attack came from several places at once, usually other hacked servers so the attacker can send a vast amount of data at once from different IP's.

It sounds like you are simply getting spammed. As for the donations page.. what it is? A form of some kind? A Paypal style "Paynow" button?

One method for forms is to have a captcha/validator of some kind to stop auto bots trying to fill in forms.
But a link to your site would help so we can see what is being spammed.