We’re always looking to reduce spam here at 3DPixel.net. In doing so we come across interesting statistics that we like to share with you, if you are so inclined of course.
Where Does All Our Spam Come From? shows a list of countries, and the corresponding count of IPs (Eurovision style listing) that we have now [...]

Why oh why oh why do websites waste potential traffic? We’ve seen so many sites that either not understand, or plainly disregard either the www. or non-www. records of their websites.
The example that has just sprung to mind is the Trafford Centre in Manchester. The www. record works but the non-www. record does not. Why? [...]

Something we’ve been playing with for a while… global gzip / deflate compression on apache servers. Naturally you can do this in php or via .htaccess but why not do it globally from the apache configuration?
Decided to give it a whirl on some of our own dedicated servers the other day.
Dowsides:

Increases CPU load
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