The .htaccess file I’ve been using may have gotten too big. I am getting “connection reset” errors on all of my sites. I deleted the deny directives and brought it down to about 1.5k so we’ll see if it clears up. It could be a DOS attack, but I don’t know.
There is always the possibility that I’ve been hacked and that by opening up the site again, I am just inviting people to abuse me.
I’ll watch it for a while and I may add the denies back to the htaccess. In the mean time I am still detecting spam and denying individual IP addresses. I especially want to keep Yandex and Majestik out of my sites.