Yes, a totally separate surver.
But maybe the cost is too high.
I understand.
It was just an idea.
MMm, yes , even if you have several layers of SPAM protection, it does not matter that you do not have to check them periodically 😁
Just noticed, that the database size jumped from 157MB to 204MB, what is more than the configured DB cache. It turned out that one of the anti SPAM plugins got deactivated after one of the upgrades, and instead of immediate rejection, posts were accepted and only then labelled as SPAM by Akismet. What resulted in 50MB of crap in a week or so and performance degradation.