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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Alternative to Bluehost?Bluehost/Hostmonster’s support is not very good. Yes, we had them till March. We have changed our hosting companies several times. We always conclude that there is no such perfect web hosting company. If you have a problem with one hosting company, you are likely to have the same problem wherever you go. As for Bluehost/Hostmonster, their support got a lot worse when they started using Livechat. Now, their average response time is 3 to 4 days. Lunarpages is relatively good. But it’s no perfect, either.
>the server seems to be going down quite often with lots of downtime
In the meantime, this problem can be triggered with DNS entry errors. It’s stated here in more detail. We had this problem even when our website was hosted at Bluehost/Hostmonster. They changed our servers without a notice and without our permission. Everything was working fine. But they then changed servers some time around February, 2007. And we started having a downtime frequently. Note that if the downtimes are caused because DNS is pointing to different servers for your account, you must be losing mail. Damage must be permanent, and lost mail cannot recovered. And Bluehost/Hostmonster can change your servers when one runs out of space.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Members Only AreaIf you are on a server that uses Apache, you can use .htaccess to password-protect sub-directories.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HACKED!If you set the permission of a directory to 711, the folder structure will be disclosed, just for your info…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HACKED!Marque, I’m sorry to hear your trouble. Here are a couple of simple suggestions.
(1) Use special characters and Greek letters, lower and upper case letters to make up a password for your admin login to WordPress blog as well as your control panel with your hosting company. Some control panels do let you use Greek letters. Others don’t. That all depends on the hosting company even for the control panel developed by the same company.
(2) Destroy the domain. Hacker5.com or whatever it is… Contact the domain company through which this domain is registered.
(3) By the way, you may want to back up database with phpAdmin like other guys say and then reinstall WP.
Good luck
Tom Bluewater
mhvt.netForum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: PHP contact form securityI’m no PHP expert. And I don’t know if there is such a completely secure PHP sendmail package that exists. We use phpFormGenerator. The forms we created with this free PHP script pack were hacked numerous times. They deleted files, even entire subdirectories. And after we took a few simple measures, they have been intact. Measures to take perhaps depend on scripts, I suppose.
Tom Bluewater
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Create a blog for each user on my siteYou are from Ambrosia like the company that designs Mac games and Snapz Pro X? Just curious.
An easy way of doing it is to protect a directory with .htaccess. You can then create many subdirectories underneath the protected one to host multiple blogs.
MacHouse
mhvt.netForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Changing host database doesn’t workWe moved from one hosting company to another at the beginning of March. I first backed up a database with phpAdmin. But I couldn’t import the database. Well, I could, but I think I had a major error in WP, I think. So I instead used WordPress Database Backup plugin by Mr. Merrill. And we could import the whole data.
Tom Bluewater
[sig moderated]Forum: Plugins
In reply to: My web site abused for spam email(1) Don’t state your e-mail address on your website. If you are going to have somebody contact you, use a PHP form.
(2) It is not necessary, however, that you need to designate a disposable e-mail account under Options/General. That’s because a comment spammer doesn’t use his/her own e-mail account to register an account.
(3) Be careful with single-line comments like ‘Hi.’ and ‘Thank you.’ Comment spammers often leave those simple comments to test your blog and see your security measures.
Good luck
Tom Bluewater
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: How the Comment Spammer ActsJust pep-talking
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Pharmacy Spammer Hits Sacramento City College√
They don’t care, I guess.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: How the Comment Spammer ActsIf you have means and resources, then simply trace links and then money.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Spam getting through athough commenting disabledYou may probably want to see how those comments get through by looking at a log file closely. This is an example shot. If a spammer goes directly to wp-comments-post.php, then changing the file name and making modifications elsewhere accordingly may stop spammers from posting comments. But I’m not a PHP programmer. It’s just an opinion from nobody.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Spam Comments from Free SubdomainsHmm…
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Alias DomainI’m sorry. I don’t understand you. Do you mean that you want to control two different websites with different domains under the same web hosting account? If that’s case, then you need to use one of them as an add-on domain.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: sharing usersAhh… Congratulations.
