I'm sorry but the Wordpress site owners that are having their sites hacked are the same people that buy a car and expect to never have to change the oil in it.
Running a self-hosted site means being able to manage one as well. If you don't want to manage it, then you use sites like Blogger. Blogger is great for that. No frills. No muss. No fuss. No extras. If you dont want to manage it yourself, you hire people like me that will not only design and build it but manage it as well. If you want to do it all yourself, please read the manual, secure it and keep it up do date with patches. Your unsecured site causes problems for everyone. If you dont change the oil in your car, dont cry when it's eventually sitting dead on the side of the road. David Howell http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In [email protected], Mike Meiser <groups-yahoo-...@...> 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...@...> wrote: > > > Looking back a page or 2 on his twitter history, I think the site got > > hacked. > > > > http://twitter.com/joshleo > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve > > > > --- In [email protected], David King <davidleeking@> 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] >
