This morning, hosted e-commerce solution Shopify enabled commenting on its users’ blogs.

After comparing the many spam filtering services available, the Ottawa-based firm decided to use Defensio as their first line of defense.

This is yet another great step for us since Shopify currently hosts ~40,000 blogs.

Shopify launched in mid-2006 and was greatly acclaimed.  Building an online store with Shopify couldn’t be easier and many believe they are a great contender to overtake eBay’s dominance in this market. Shopify recently announced they passed $10M in total sales.

It’s our pleasure to announce that our Canadian friends at Hop Studios built a Defensio module for the wonderful ExpressionEngine CMS.  They call it Defensio Combo.  You can get it from Hop’s website, or download it from our very own website.

With ExpressionEngine 2.0 just around the corner, you’ll be happy to know that the guys at Hop committed themselves to releasing an update to their module shortly after the 2.0 release. You’ll never be without decent spam protection again.

Welcome to the family EEers!

We’re glad to add it to our list of supported platforms.  You can download it on the Defensio for Textcube page.

Amazon, our hosting provider, is currently having problems and we’re suffering from it. A very important piece of our “puzzle” is unreachable. We have already communicated with Amazon to resolve the problem.

I’ll post updates on Twitter. Sorry about the inconvenience.

UPDATE: We’re back up and running. Thank you for your patience!

UPDATE 2: Spoke too soon…

UPDATE 3: Things have stabilized.

UPDATE 4: Everything’s back to normal!

Although attacks are hard to prevent, we’ve taken steps to make our servers more resistant in the future.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Many small things were improved and fixed, but the most interesting change is the better integration of the quarantine with WordPress 2.5 and up.  

We’ve been testing this new release for some time, but if you have any problem with this update, please let us know.

Happy blogging!

By popular request, we just started hosting our WordPress plugin code on GitHub!  You can now stay up-to-date with our development effort and even help us by implementing the features you want.

GitHub (and Git) make collaborating on software easy.  Everybody can now fork our plugin to implement new features or fix a bug.  We’ll be happy to integrate any changes we feel will benefit other users.

If you’re not that much of a coder, you can still help!  We definitely need people to test the freshly baked code you’ll find at GitHub.

Our GitHub page is at http://github.com/karabunga.  Oh… and if you don’t know what Git is yet, you should definitely check out PeepCode’s great video on the subject ($9, but worth every penny).

We have also created a ticket tracker at Lighthouse.  You can now submit your bugs or feature requests here: http://karabunga.lighthouseapp.com

Happy collaboration!

We’ll be rolling out the update in the coming hours/days.  No data will be lost, but your statistics might go out of sync a little bit.  We do not expect any downtime and the upgrade should be totally transparent to you.

We’ll keep you updated on Twitter. If Defensio doesn’t seem to behave properly during the transition, please let us know.

Thanks for your support!