Well....it could also be that sometimes with an update to Wordpress...not everything works right, plugin's that worked before suddenly do not, or some random combination of things cause an issue...so it's not just as simple as keeping the site up to date with the current software....
So it's not always so simple.... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In [email protected], Mike Meiser <groups-yahoo- c...@...> 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 <taoofda...@...> 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-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 <steve@> 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] >
