Still annoyed with my web hosting provider. I guess they finally realized I wasn't kidding when I said stuff was SERIOUSLY BROKEN. (Even after they supposedly fixed it!) They took things down for another two days to do a "bare metal restore".
But wait.
Yep. It gets better.
Mmnyeah, so quick backstory... my site was hacked (Oh, Movable Type, how I HATE thee) back in something like 2004? Essentially, hackers used some hole in Movable Type to crack in and hijack links. I gave up trying to "fix" it after my friend bought me Expression Engine. I imported all of my entries and I've never had an issue since... EXCEPT for old/weird/forgotten HTML files which had this malicious script hidden in them.
Fast forward to Decemberish - it was brought to my attention that there were malicious files on my server and could I please repair/remove them. So I did. Cleaned the whole mess out.
So guess where they dug up the backup from? Mmnyeah. Before I cleaned everything out.
So guess what I've been doing all night?
Top it off with a snarky/bitchy message from the hosting company that it's MY responsibility to maintain current and up-to-date scripts on my server... OMFG. Seriously?
Look, the malicious "script" that hacked the site has been gone for 8 years. The stuff that's "hacked" was just old ghost files that were lingering around. Only 2 out of bajillions even had their links jacked because the rest didn't even HAVE links. Other than spammy links, there's no harm or reason to freak out. Jeeze peeps. I HAVE kept all of my scripts up to date, except for everything being ROLLED BACK more than a freakin month because of their server fart.
I'm livid. I had a whole nasty response about how I should take my business elsewhere. I'm glad I wrote it - it made me feel better - but then I deleted it. Part of the solution. Clean up my site, let them know it's cleaned up, and move on. I WILL point out to them (once again) that if there were any out-of-date scripts it's because of their server failure and I WILL point out my site was hacked years ago and the offended scripts removed, but I doubt they'll listen.
I really do want to find a new hosting provider, now, though. This is just crap.
But wait.
Yep. It gets better.
Mmnyeah, so quick backstory... my site was hacked (Oh, Movable Type, how I HATE thee) back in something like 2004? Essentially, hackers used some hole in Movable Type to crack in and hijack links. I gave up trying to "fix" it after my friend bought me Expression Engine. I imported all of my entries and I've never had an issue since... EXCEPT for old/weird/forgotten HTML files which had this malicious script hidden in them.
Fast forward to Decemberish - it was brought to my attention that there were malicious files on my server and could I please repair/remove them. So I did. Cleaned the whole mess out.
So guess where they dug up the backup from? Mmnyeah. Before I cleaned everything out.
So guess what I've been doing all night?
Top it off with a snarky/bitchy message from the hosting company that it's MY responsibility to maintain current and up-to-date scripts on my server... OMFG. Seriously?
Look, the malicious "script" that hacked the site has been gone for 8 years. The stuff that's "hacked" was just old ghost files that were lingering around. Only 2 out of bajillions even had their links jacked because the rest didn't even HAVE links. Other than spammy links, there's no harm or reason to freak out. Jeeze peeps. I HAVE kept all of my scripts up to date, except for everything being ROLLED BACK more than a freakin month because of their server fart.
I'm livid. I had a whole nasty response about how I should take my business elsewhere. I'm glad I wrote it - it made me feel better - but then I deleted it. Part of the solution. Clean up my site, let them know it's cleaned up, and move on. I WILL point out to them (once again) that if there were any out-of-date scripts it's because of their server failure and I WILL point out my site was hacked years ago and the offended scripts removed, but I doubt they'll listen.
I really do want to find a new hosting provider, now, though. This is just crap.
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