Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am definitely blaming my ISP (Wopsa.se in Sweden). Someone managed to log in with root rights and used their "seller software", cpanel, to delete accounts, in alphabetical order. Unfortunately I do not have a back up. All my paw files are backed up, of course, but not my blog (I'll probably just quite doing a blog). I had some stuff there I would have wanted to keep. Gone now. I am definitely looking for another ISP to move my domain to. Daniel On 12/18/06, Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote: > Blame your ISP (and then choose another one). Should not happen with safe > ftp accounts and well chosen passwords. I hope you have your own backups > of your websites? I do mirror every website on a personal apache server in > my home, including all db's and server based code like mysql, cgi and so > on, because don't trust the ISP's backup technologies. Once, after a > server crash, they managed to upload a website backup which was 4 years > old. Couldn't believe it! > Didier > > > >Well didn't I just get a nice welcome on my little vacation? > >I got to Chicago, tried to access my site and couldn't. Turned out a > >hacker has hacked my ISP:s routines and deleted my account and 15 > >others. > >No domain, no web page, no email and the ISP says they changed back-up > >routines on Friday and a new one hasn't been run. They can't find any > >old ones either. > >Daniel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >