Comments on: Web Site Down? Maybe You Should Thank Your Hosting Company

By: Aaron Weiche

Aaron Weiche — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:44:01 +0000

Good to hear a positive hosting story for once. I’ve long been in the camp that while bandwidth and space are cheap, if not free … the service and security of hosting will drive many to seek out a more mid-level service, instead of $5/month.

By: Loren

Loren — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:44:21 +0000

Do you know if the attacker got in through a error in WordPress or was it something to do with the hosting? I have been told that keeping Wordpress up-to-date prevents many of the attacks.

I’m glad to see you’ve got the site running again.

By: Selene M. Bowlby

Selene M. Bowlby — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:36:06 +0000

Wow! I’m glad that HostGator was right on top of everything!

By: Char

Char — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:15:45 +0000

Roxanne - yes, I was.

Chris - staying one step ahead of hackers is just impossible. Comment spam is definitely easier to deal with.

Andrew - yep - as easy as it is to get upset with your hosting company when a site goes down, they really did the right thing for me. Not sure what the hacker was going after - haven’t had time to really look at my log files close enough.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:55:34 +0000

Sad that it was needed, but good thing HostGator reacted that promptly. Do you have any idea what the intruder tried to do?

By: Chris Cree

Chris Cree — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:11:26 +0000

Char, This whole hacker thing is getting more serious by the day. I’m starting to think that it won’t be long before we start pining for the days when all we had to worry about was comment spam. Grrr…

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:15:46 +0000

Wow, you were lucky!!!