My experience working at bluehost was similar, however I don't blame Wordpress (necessarily). Most of those hacked Wordpress sites had not updated Wordpress in a very long time and were several versions behind. Others usually had Wordpress plugins that hadn't been updated in ages.
Also, the reason you saw more Wordpress sites hacked than Drupal or Joomla was likely more related to the sheer number of Wordpress sites that bluehost hosts. I'm not saying that wordpress doesn't have it's security issues, but it is sufficient for most people(assuming that they are keeping updated). Also, wordpress makes it extremely easy to see that updates are available and to install the updates. -John On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > If you know php & html, then I'd recode using those. > > Wordpress is a hacker's paradise. > > When I worked tech support at BlueHost, every evening someone would call > with a hacked CMS (Content Management System) > either Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. Wordpress by the way was the worse. > > I'm not surprised that it's running slow. > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Robert Merrill <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Pluggers, > > > > I've been hosting my own WordPress sites for seven years or so now, and > > the reality is that my sites are just running too slow. I'm using a > virtual > > shared server on media Temple. Admittedly I'm paying $20 a month, so I > > don't expect best in class performance, but I have to do something > > different. > > > > I can move my sites to WordPress.com and for the same price per month, > get > > much better performance, it appears… However, with much less flexibility > > and I can't customize anything other than stylesheets. > > > > Before making the leap, I wonder if there something smarter I should do? > > Is there a better shared server setup that you can think of? Is there > > something more advanced in the area of $60 or $80 a month? Or am I > looking > > at $300 or $500 a month for something beefy enough to give me reasonable > > performance? > > > > I'm already using some (I think) good caching, as well as a fairly > > extensive edge CDN media/static file distribution set up leveraging AWS. > > > > I'm not opposed to a little learning curve and elbow grease. I'm not a > > hacker, but I'm more advanced than your average Joe. I know PHP, minimal > > perl and py, JavaScript, databases, the basic web technologies, I can > SFTP > > and chmod files, mess w DNS zone files, and have minimal but passing > > capability with .htaccess and the like... but admittedly until a few > years > > ago I thought "Sudo" was a line from a Phil Collins song. > > > > Thoughts? Lost cause? Bite the bullet? > > > > -- > > Robert Merrill > > http://connectedwell.com > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
