Sister Claire Got Hacked

[Yamino]

I don't know where I got the impression that Comic Reef had only two templates- maybe I got mixed up with another alternate comic publisher someone sent me.  I know I read it at some point.

Anyway, I'm sorry I didn't reply to your email, BlkKnight.  Around that time I was getting a LOT of emails with all sorts of proposals to get the site fixed, and I spent literally 2 entire days seated at my computer chatting with my techie friends to get it resolved.  I didn't have time to reply to most of the messages I got then.  I got messages from a couple other people suggesting I switch to a new comic publisher, but as I've mentioned already, it was not Wordpress or Comicpress that was causing the problem, it was my crappy GoDaddy server.

About ComicReef and Dragonpower, I think they are more geared to people who actually know more about coding than I do. People who have the time/experience to make widgets and major customizations if they needed to.  I don't have that luxury.  I lack the time and the technological savvy.  I don't really WANT to become a coding expert.  All I want to do is draw my comic.  Wordpress/Comicpress is just far more convenient for me. 

I want you guys to understand that it's nothing personal, I have nothing but respect for you for creating alternatives to wordpress.  But I have yet to find one good reason why I should switch, aside from the argument that Wordpress is more likely to be attacked.  But the flip side is that it's also much easier to get instant help for fixing it if that is that case.

[Funderbunk]

You just can't seem to catch a break, can you? Third time.

[Yamino]

Tell me about it. I've had it with GoDaddy. I'm currently backing up everything and preparing to move to a more secure host.

[Funderbunk]

Hope that other host will work out better for you! Good luck with it.

[D-Ballz]

Yeah, I hope it all works out better this time...

Couldn't believe it when I went on Sister Claire earlier and got a warning on AVG...

[Yamino]

Here's some breaking news:
http://www.wpsecuritylock.com/cechriecom-com-script-wordpress-hacked-on-godaddy-case-study/

I've now switched over to Dreamhost. I'm also taking a couple other security measures, but hopefully this will be the end of that. D:

[Rob]

Wow... the article is bad enough but all those updates make it sound like no one knows what's going on or how to stop it.

Scary.  :(

[Knara]

Dreamhost gets a lot of flack from folks using shared hosting to do what they're not supposed to be doing with shared hosting, but I've found them very responsive and their one-click wordpress updates have always worked just fine for me.

If you look in their forums, I also made a short tutorial about installing awstats for a wordpress install instead of their default stats program, fyi.

[Nuke]

Dreamhost is pretty nice, and you can use coupon codes and stuff to get it very cheap for a year. However, I do sometimes get load speed and database errors from people on my shared server doing stupid stuff. And I have had to put up with maybe a day or so worth of down time in the eight months since I...


... Man. Eight months? I can't believe I've been updating that long 0_o