WordPress.com Forums » Topic: took off a year: upon return 8000 spams? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/took-off-a-year-upon-return-8000-spams WordPress.com Forums » Topic: took off a year: upon return 8000 spams? en Mon, 20 May 2013 02:32:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 absurdoldbird on "took off a year: upon return 8000 spams?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/took-off-a-year-upon-return-8000-spams#post-871427 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:54:15 +0000 absurdoldbird 871427@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If your blog is self-hosted then you're posting to the wrong forum. This is WordPress.com, you need WordPress.org for self-hosted blogs. Here's the page for the wordpress.org forums:

http://wordpress.org/support/

and to understand the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org, click this:

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

There are a couple of links at the bottom of that page that'll give you extra info too.

]]> mcclept on "took off a year: upon return 8000 spams?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/took-off-a-year-upon-return-8000-spams#post-871392 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:37:02 +0000 mcclept 871392@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Long story but i set up my site mcclept.com- using wordpress.org (I believe i just found out the difference) but have it hosted somewhere else.
I did not use it much and went back into dashboard after about a year. There are 8000 spams waiting to be approved. I deleted / marked as spam/trashed about 2000 then I got a
"This website is currently over capacity of existing hosting package.
Please contact the hosting provider for upgrade options.

So now I am wondering how this happened since no new images etc were added?
Do I need to get a wordpress.com instead?
I am confused

thanks

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