MIke? Why did you have to say that?
Now I want to go on vacation for a month. ;-) Tim Street [email protected] http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet On Feb 8, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: > To use your car analogy most people simply take it to the dealer for > maintence. > There is no dealer for self hosting. Dreamhost nor any other provide > that > sort of support. That type of structure does not exist. > > Most people are not technically literate enough to manage the constant > stream of upgrades. I myself while technically capable, cut a hard > edge on > maintence issues. If I go on vacation for a month, I simply don't > want to > worry about it. And a month of ignoring it is all it takes... now > multiply > that by the rest of your life. Most people underestimate how much > the long > term maintence costs are while underestimating their own capactity > to handle > that constant maintence. > > These people should simply NOT be self hosting... unless they use > blogger.com which requires no maintence. > > It's that simple. > > -Mike > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:41 PM, David Howell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
