Following the huge success of our last 90% off promotion, we’ve decided to bring it back! As with the last promotion, only 30 will be available, so get in whilst you can. Current customers can use this coupon 
Coupon: 90GONE
Terms and Conditions of Promotional Coupon
- Coupon code expires April 30th 2007.
- Only 30 coupons are available – get in whilst you can!
- Coupon applies to your first billing cycle only.
- Coupon applies to monthly billing cycles only.
I’m sure that many of you are users are WordPress. If any of you are using WordPress 2.1.1 it is vital that you upgrade to 2.1.2.
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file. We have locked down that server for further forensics, but at this time it appears that the 2.1.1 download was the only thing touched by the attack. They modified two files in WP to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution.
Although our main server is currently extremely stable, we can never have too much! I have scheduled an additonal 1GB of RAM to be installed on the server later this evening. The upgrade will result in no more than 15 minutes of downtime and has been scheduled for 10 PM EST (02/05/2007).
This will take our server RAM to the following:
- Memory: 3072 MB DDR (3GB) ECC System Memory
Which is a very high specification. Once again, this upgrade is typical of our determination to grow as a company, whilst providing the best possible services and hardware for our wonderful customers!
root@hostedfx [~]# w
22:11:12 up 377 days, 13:42, 1 user, load average: 0.60, 0.34, 0.29
The above was taken from our dedicated server providers at the datacentre, it would have been longer had we not rebooted the server. Never-the-less this proves no serious power-related issues in our data center for over 375 days!
Hello all,
Google’s new ‘Code Search‘ system has been finding a number of zip files uploaded on various customers’ sites and publishing the script contents, including sensitive data.
Please, do not leave your zip/tar.gz files or site backups in a web-accessible location!
Place them in password protected directories only.
