Akismet woes

Anyone with a blog will know the value of Akismet. It automatically filters out comment spam based on a global list of spam content and senders. As soon as I identify a comment as spam, every other instance of Akismet knows about it and blocks it.

I moved servers recently, so this site is now running on a web server VM in my attic. One thing I noticed afterwards was that I stopped receiving spam, or more accurately, Akismet stopped listing spam. Either the spammers forgot where my blog was, or it was borked. I don’t want to risk loosing valid comments due to a false positive, so I need to change my comment spam prevention method. Hmmm…