How to Stop Spammers on Your Contact Form in Joomla 2.5

Last Updated on Monday, 21 January 2013 02:22 Written by Milton Parada Sunday, 27 January 2013 12:00

This article is about how to stop spam in your Joomla 2.5 site, this problem is common when we have a contact form, using the plugin “EasyCalcCheck PLUS” we will have a tool to stop spammers.

The plugin protects Joomla! core forms and 3rd party extensions through internal checks and the integration of anti-spam services (reCaptcha, Akismet, Honeypot Project, StopForumSpam, Mollom, Bot-Trap, Botscout).

1. Download the plugin from joomla.org, here.

SOPA – What does it all mean?

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 January 2012 05:28 Written by Mike Hoffman Friday, 30 December 2011 04:41

The official position of Arvixe is against SOPA. This is an educational article informing blog readers about the current SOPA bill and its potential impact on the web hosting industry.

Over the span of the last two months, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) [1] has garnered much attention and criticism. In a nutshell, this bill was designed and proposed to help protect artists and intellectual property owners. Sharing and illegal downloading of music, movies, and software  has been very prevalent since the inception of the internet, and even beforehand – some of our older readers might remember swapping floppy discs for the latest computer games. This bill also extends to the realm of counterfeit goods, such as purses and perscription drugs sold online.

SOPA would allow the US Justice Department to seek court orders against websites that host or provide access to these illegal goods. Proposed on October 26th, the CEO of the BBB says that online piracy costs companies billions of dollars a year [2]. We are all very familiar with the suits brought against sites like Napster, which were easy to bring down under US law since all facets of the website were in the US domain [3].

Stopping Spam in Dolphin 7

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:09 Written by Mscott Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:00

Hello and welcome! In today’s blog I am going to show you how to block spam for your Dolphin based website. Everyone hates unwanted advertising and your members are no different. Luckily, Dolphin 7 has a built-in spam prevention system.

How to Start/Restart/Stop the ftpd Service

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 September 2011 12:22 Written by Richi González Friday, 23 September 2011 12:00

Hello,

This is the third article on how to start/restart/stop services (1st: httpd, 2nd: mysqld, 3rd:ftpd). I have added two different commands per action, if one does not work, try the next one. You will need SSH root access.
Difficulty level: Easy

How to Start/Restart/Stop the mysqld Service

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 September 2011 12:22 Written by Richi González Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:00

Hello,

I have written an article on how to start/restart/stop the httpd service, and decided to write another one for the mysqld service. You will need SSH root access.
Difficulty level: Easy