New Host, New Design
As you might be able to tell, I have a new site design. Why, because it was time for a change and because of a slight problem with my previous host. So here is the whole story.
Late last week I decided to try MacJournal from the MacHeist Bundle to see how it well it works for doing blog posts. While setting it up, I kept getting an error. After trying to go to my site, I saw that it was suspended. Hmm, I know that my last hosting bill was due on March 1, so I figured that something was up with the payment. I sent off an email to the hosting service, AxisHost, and received the reply back that my site was suspended for “an exploited WordPress”. Hmm, I know that WordPress has its issues and figured maybe I missed an update. So I inquired about what to do to un-suspend it and being a Security Professional, wanted some information on what happened.
Received a reply back basically saying back up the database, install a fresh WordPress, then restore the database. However, as far as what happened, I was told that’ no viruses were found, but I had to rebuild’. Again, I pressed for more details and was told there was ‘nothing further in the log’.
I guess two things bother me about this. First, the site was taken down and no alert was made to me. Second, if you detect a site was ‘exploited’, I don’t think it is too much to ask for some more specific details of what you detected.
Anyhow, long story short, I moved away from AxisHost over to DreamHost. So far, so good. Let me know what you think of the new layout…
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