Yep - bigtime bummer! And agreed with wordpress. About half their updates are because of security fixes.
That said, wordpress simply rocks as a self hosted blog platform - I love it. Hope he doesn't have too much trouble sorting through the mess Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Mike Meiser <groups-yahoo- c...@mmeiser.com> wrote: > Sad to hear. :( > I'm assuming he was running wordpress? > > I've seen way to many wordpress blogs hacked. The problem is just > maintence, > you have to keep wordpress constantly up to date to patch security > holes. If > you don't it will inevitably get hacked. Same goes for all server > side open > source. > > Many times I've wanted to redo my blogger.com blog in wordpress, > indeed > wordpress is simply better, but the truth is blogger.com is > virtually hack > proof since there's absolutely no server side code running. It's all > handled > by blogger.com and written to the server via sftp. I've really come > to > appreciate this rock solid security and ZERO maintenance, and to be > honest > it's the primary reason I simply recommend blogger over wordpress to > anyone > who wants to self host on their own domain. The exception being if > they're a > developer and already running code on their server, in which case > they're > probably aware enough of the maintenance issues to run wordpress. > > Lately I've been doing a lot of work in the bike industry and it > seems the > entire industry from shop owners, to racers to bike makers runs almost > exclusively on a blogspot hosted ecosystem. It simply works. > > P.S. a good auto-backup system or version control system for your > blog is a > MUST if you run wordpress. A lot of hosting providers include this > stock. > > -Mike > mmeiser.com/blog > flickr.com/photos/mmeiser2 > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Steve Watkins <st...@dvmachine.com> > wrote: > >> Looking back a page or 2 on his twitter history, I think the site got >> hacked. >> >> http://twitter.com/joshleo >> >> Cheers >> >> Steve >> >> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King <davidleek...@...> >> wrote: >>> >>> Anyone know what happened to josh Leo's site (joshleo.com)? It looks >>> like it is gone ... & I really like his videos! >>> >>> Just curious >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
