LunarPages Suspended Page, Hacking My Site, Hacks Me Off!
LunarPages Hacked My Site!!
If you stopped by in the last day or so you may have thought I'd jacked it all in.
What happened, where did I go?
Well, I'm sorry, but my ISP, Lunarpages hacked my site, pulled it down and stamped on it. It wasn't entirely their fault, but their mixed support was, and I'll be blogging about that, as well as amending the advice I offer on this site, as a reseller of Lunarpages * services.
* EDIT: No, not any more .. I binned those LooneyTunes months ago now, after their "support" department managed to lose my database. Didn't really ring true, reselling space cadets. Course, I gave 'em a rocket. Hmmn.
A couple of days ago, a couple of files on my site, according to Lunarpages, sent my shared server's processing through the roof. I've asked for a precise reason but they say they can't give those details, so I have to try to figure it out for myself; I'll let you know. Anyhow, the first I know of it is a page, telling the world my site is now a "suspended page".
For an online business, that's just great. Cheers.
About a day later, with 4 calls to support, calling international, about a dozen forum messages and another dozen emails, the site's back.
So this week has been decimated. The posts I'd planned. Postponed. The plans I'd had. Compromised. Not happy.
OK. Let's be fair here. This isn't Lunarpages fault. I think. Like I say, I can't be sure because they won't tell me exactly what was the problem. How handy is that? Possibly I had a traffic spike, else maybe an intrusion attack, and the server couldn't cope. I'll let you know.
More on this next week. In the meantime, it's back to business. Of course, it is Friday, the thirteenth! ...
UPDATE: OK, so I was hacked. I'd left a door open in my WordPress blog installation and, hey presto, SQL injection attack. Want to know how to make WordPress hack-proof? I did 
. Or more about lovely Lunarpages?
Related post 1: Video How-to: 10 Tips To Make WordPress Hack-Proof
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UPDATE: OK kids. Er, Lunarpages didn't really hack my site. But I'm leaving the headline 'cos it's getting loads of traffic!
FACT IS, I got hacked. Ha! So my fault. But not again...
http://guvnr.com/web/blogging/10-tips-to-make-wordpress-hack-proof/
Er, best ammend the post then...
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