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Old 10-05-2010, 01:44 PM
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Pretty much everyone knows we've been offline for a few days. The problem is that we were hacked and our host took us down without notice in order to upgrade THEIR software. We're not real happy with the host and may be moving but that is another story.

It does not appear that we lost any posts but there may be some short term outages while we get things stabilized.
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Old 10-05-2010, 04:03 PM
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Kerry look before you leap. This site works better overall than any of the others I visit/use. But I bow to your judgment on whats best. Michael
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Old 10-05-2010, 04:17 PM
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Michael, the biggest issue is the "customer service" of our hosting company. As a paying customer, being treated like a mushroom doesn't go over very well. As the webmaster, being treated like a mushroom makes it very hard to do my job.

We're still investigating at this point.

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Old 10-05-2010, 05:46 PM
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Thanks fellows for all you do here.

I'd be happy to donate if funds are needed to keep this site afloat.
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Old 10-05-2010, 05:57 PM
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Old 10-05-2010, 06:44 PM
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...I'd be happy to donate if funds are needed to keep this site afloat.
Thanks Tom. At this point we're happy just funding it ourselves. Down the road we may try to figure out a way to accept donations if the expense gets to the point where it's too painful for use to bare alone.

The issue for us is that we don't want to file anything with anyone from a tax or license standpoint. As long as we keep it between the 4 of us it's just a hobby and nothing is required. As soon as we start taking money we may have an issue.

We'll investigate it more if it becomes an issue but we appreciate the thought.
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Old 10-05-2010, 09:40 PM
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I have had my website on Bluehost for almost 10 years now.
NEVER a down time I didn't create.
Plenty of space. Regular backups. US Support team 24/7 always there and always good.
I have a fairly large site, and have hosted a web-forum for a car club. At its peak my site was getting 2400 hits a day. Never had a single problem, unkless it was my three thumbed programming. Even then I was back up within 4 hours.
And the price is reasonable.

I love these guys:
http://www.bluehost.com/track/dabirdguy


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Old 10-05-2010, 10:29 PM
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Do they do VPS hosting that would reasonably serve a busy site with plenty of speed? There are lots of hosts out there. My Tripod site has been up for nearly 10 years now with zero downtime that I am aware of (other than exceeding my bandwidth limits). My old site on a paid Crosswinds account couldn't stay up and running for more than 3 weeks at a time, where my free Crosswinds site ran the whole time.

How helpful would Bluehost be when someone hacked the root of the site? It was pretty much a blitz attack too, coming from Austria, Norway, China (blocked by my security scripts) and Austin, Texas (another site with an ip address owned by Apollo) - hundreds of rapid-fire hits, mostly at files and folders that don't exist. Somewhere along the line, someone got in and used our server to wage the same kind of attack against another server. No real damage that we are aware of, so far.

Still wading through the log files to narrow things down.

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Old 10-06-2010, 07:24 AM
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Tim,
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Old 10-08-2010, 06:29 PM
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Well, our host finally did what they claimed they spent 4 days last weekend doing......and caught us totally off-guard! When I woke up this afternoon (I work nights), the site was down and basically wiped clean. A bit of time learning the new system and a few calls to customer support (to answer one question) and we're back online!

Now I just need to finish the job

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