you are using 2 EOL products there which are no longer supported or updated, CF7 and SQL 2000 Windows Server 2003 is EOL in about 7 months, so you will not get any updates for that either beyond that date. If you are hosting this off your ADSL, then that presumably means no firewall other than the one on the ADSL router.
I'm sorry to inform you that that your server is most definitely vulnerable, it took me just a few seconds to find your ColdFusion admin, and just a few more minutes to hack it. Go look in your ColdFusion data sources and you will see a a new data source I just created with a message for you. Hopefully this will prove a point and show you that you have been lucky until now. I am not a hacker, so if I can do it this easily, imagine what a real hacker would do. It is sheer luck that you didn't get hacked already, which is because it hosts only 3 small low traffic clients, so no hacker has come across it so far. You will be lucky to find any host offering such old EOL software, and anyone who is still offering that will be putting all the risk and onus on you regarding security as they would not be able to support such a setup. I very much doubt you have anything on those old sites that wont run on Railo though, in fact it will more likely run on Railo than it will on CF10/11 Your SQL 2000 databases will work fine on SQL Server 2008 or 2012 express edition which is free. So the only real cost to you is the VPS itself, which you should get with Windows server 2012, which will also be free from many hosts On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Jenny Gavin-Wear < [email protected]> wrote: > > I'd be interested to know which route you decide to take. > > I stopped taking on new clients about 2 years ago. I now look after only 3 > and their bandwidth requirements are small. They've all been with me for a > very long time and do produce a useful bit of income. > > My setup now is a windows 2003 server with CF7 / SQL 2000. Old, I know, > but > it works and there has been nothing of use to me in the upgrades, certainly > nothing to make it worth me paying the crazy upgrade costs. The server > sits > in my garage on a business broadband line, not ideal, I know this, > especially as my garage has been converted into a headshot studio for my > photography business! > > I don't have time for the major hassle of porting my sites from CF7 to > whatever CF is on now. I also integrating one of the sites quite heavily > into my SmarterMail server, such as automated generation of mail list > members and I pull the contents of one of the mail lists into an archive > made available on the website. > > Ideally I'd like to get everything shifted to a VPS, but would I be able to > run these old applications? And where could I get an inexpensive yet > reliable service? > > I'd appreciate any ideas, please. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Eidson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 08 November 2014 01:48 > To: cf-talk > Subject: RE: Is time for a change? > > > Oh I know all about the email hosting.. .Before I moved to Hostek I had a > T1 > line into my basement. Did all my own hosting, I had 2 server cabinets with > all Dells...(I still have them) pretty good setup. I started my company > with > that and then the T1 became outdated and very expensive. I used ArgoSoft > Mail Server, actually really liked it but the SPAM and Blacklist were a > nightmare. But back then my company was bigger with closer to 100 > domains/clients. I formed a partnership with another person who pretty much > screwed me over. We split up the company (lost a lot of clients in the > breakup) and I formed Eidson Empire, LLC. and moved to Hostek for my > provider. > > I still not sure what I am going to do.. I think the VPS will be more than > I > can afford right now. Maybe if I land about 10 more clients I can justify > it. > > Rick > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359615 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
