reCaptcha or no reCaptcha?! Help from experienced webmasters!

[Alex Nitu]

Hi guys!

 

My website is almost completed and something hit me: I need a captcha method to prevent bots from attacking my "recover password" or my "contact form". Although the second aspect will not be as important, I had attacks, in the past, from bots spamming my "recover password" page.

 

I noticed reCaptcha is the least annoying method of them all, although most users despise any type of Captcha.

 

I don't know much about website security, and I started out this topic because I want to know if there is a more discreet way of preventing those type of attacks, without using reCaptcha. If not, then I will go ahead and figure out a way to implement it.

 

Please share your thoughts.