Hacked servers / 0 day exploit everyone read!!

i know what linux is and the people who maintain them should keep up to date with the latest happenings with it.

seems to be hostgator was the only one effected by this exploit and last i checked godaddy was hacked was back in 2005/early 2006. so i don't need excuses from an inadequate hosting company.

I run a computer support forum and i am on the net daily reading and looking at the latest news that deals with windows operating systems.

what this tells me is that hostgrator does not put forth any effort staying up to date with the latest, till it's to late or they stumble upon it. you just now got php5. i've been on php5 for over a year now.

that said i am still in search of a host because i don't like watching my site load at 3.48 seconds when in reality it should load under 1. sec, granted i have a couple flash blocks but it still should load under 2. secs.

i think the staff should be more involved with maintaining there systems then messing about fixing everyones sites because they screwed up implementing something on there server.

And

Please do not post years old articles as an example, your only proving that hostgator screwed up by not staying on top of there own systems.

I also just read that hostgator will suspend an account they feel is being a resource hog yet, they say unlimited bandwidth. to many complaints and not enough good reviews for me.
Thank you for your time.

[quietFinn]

Originally Posted by clyde4210

seems to be hostgator was the only one effected by this exploit and last i checked godaddy was hacked was back in 2005/early 2006. so i don't need excuses from an inadequate hosting company.

DOes not seem like that to me: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=670497

[kmaw]

Originally Posted by clyde4210

I run a computer support forum and i am on the net daily reading and looking at the latest news that deals with windows operating systems.

Originally Posted by quietFinn

DOes not seem like that to me: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=670497

Guess you don't spend enough time reading the latest news that deals with linux.

[Serra]

Originally Posted by clyde4210

seems to be hostgator was the only one effected by this exploit and last i checked godaddy was hacked was back in 2005/early 2006. so i don't need excuses from an inadequate hosting company.

Sorry, but if you are going to post, you are going to have to start posting in English. I mean all of the words are there, but you don't seem to understand sentence structure nor anything about the flow of ideas.

I take it you are trying to say that HG was the only host who was hacked. While that IS possible, they are a very large host and if anyone is going to get hacked, it would be a larger host, you can't imply that they were hacked because they were 'inadequate' in some way. They didn't fail to properly patch their machines, there simply was not patch. In fact, they did unpatch their machines to avoid the exploit, then repatch when a patch was available.

I don't understand how goDaddy being hacked in 2005 has anything to do with that sentence, it actually seems to be an unrelated thought that just wondered into the sentence.

Plus, what does HG making excuses have to do with the fact that goDaddy was hacked? Were you drunk when you posted this? Perhaps, I'll get drunk and reread it.... maybe that will help.

Just to add a little actual info:

http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=89616

[Rockoids]

It may take more than getting drunk. But we relics from the 60s can specify a few other substances that will most definitely put your mind in the proper state.

[Goddess Dix]

Originally Posted by clyde4210

i know what linux is and the people who maintain them should keep up to date with the latest happenings with it.

i maintain many linuxes myself. they're very soft and furry and like to be rubbed on the belly and eat lotsa patches. but they will get big and fat if you feed them patches with very large fonts, so you have to be careful about that. however, i think fat linuxes are more scary to haxors.

seems to be hostgator was the only one effected by this exploit and last i checked godaddy was hacked was back in 2005/early 2006. so i don't need excuses from an inadequate hosting company.

yeah, godaddy never gets hacked. that's because they feed their linuxes patches that haven't been released yet with very large fonts and the l33t haxors are afraid of the awesome-sized linuxes. also, the haxors cannot get into to hack godaddy because they don't any control panels to hack into and since there are 3,984,495 accounts on every server, it's very slow (and hard to get away from the fat, patch-fed linuxes before you get caught)! and they haxors, who all love porn very much, get distracted by thinking about godaddy-girl commercials and end up forgeting the hacking to go watch old godaddy-girl commercials on youtube.

I run a computer support forum and i am on the net daily reading and looking at the latest news that deals with windows operating systems.

wow! i want the latest windows patch that hasn't come out yet! maybe i should visit your site. my windows eats patches, too, but the patches have small fonts, so i need extra ones because my windows gets very hungry and thinks i don't love them as much as my linuxes.

what this tells me is that hostgrator does not put forth any effort staying up to date with the latest, till it's to late or they stumble upon it. you just now got php5. i've been on php5 for over a year now.

i know! just yesterday, i stumbled right over php5 in the hallway. somebody left it laying right out there for anybody to trip over. i got a bruise. very sloppy housekeeping.

that said i am still in search of a host because i don't like watching my site load at 3.48 seconds when in reality it should load under 1. sec, granted i have a couple flash blocks but it still should load under 2. secs.

i would like for your site to load before i visit it. having to wait after i visit it means you have substandard hosting. i'm not going to visit it now!

i think the staff should be more involved with maintaining there systems then messing about fixing everyones sites because they screwed up implementing something on there server.

exactly! hg wastes so much time on helping customers they don't have time to run their OWN computer systems...i also think support should spend more time feeding my linuxes large-fonted patches before they come out instead of providing support for their customers. any real hosting company would know this. and also hg needs get a roomba to take care of that php5 laying in the hallway.

I also just read that hostgator will suspend an account they feel is being a resource hog yet, they say unlimited bandwidth. to many complaints and not enough good reviews for me.

the bandwidth can get a little fat with the large-fonted patches the linuxes eat; instead of feeding their linuxes so many patches that haven't been created yet, maybe they should feed them some spam instead. then everybody can get their sites blacklisted instead of having the resource hog make their sites take 2.3 seconds to load before i visit it.

Thank you for your time.

i'd prefer cash to thanks.

[SwollenCranium]

Originally Posted by Goddess Dix

soft and furry and like to be rubbed on the belly

who all love porn very much, get distracted by thinking about godaddy-girl commercials and end up forgeting the hacking to go watch old godaddy-girl commercials on youtube.


i'd prefer cash to thanks.

I need a shower and a smoke now .... thanks !!!

word of advice, stop visiting other forums for webhosts and start visitig linux forums. usually there main site is where you'll find out long before something happens and how to remedy it.

serra maybe you should start reading all threads instead of just one thread. maybe you've been drinking to much. wow, have a few grammatical errors and look how the high and mighty unintelligent are quick to jump on it. proves to me you have nothing to say, so you attack.

here you go, this is a place to start.
http://www.securityfocus.com/

[quietFinn]

Originally Posted by clyde4210

word of advice, stop visiting other forums for webhosts and start visitig linux forums. usually there main site is where you'll find out long before something happens and how to remedy it.

You claimed that "hostgator was the only one effected by this exploit", but those threads in WebHostinTalk and ThePlanet forums prove that it's not true.

You also said "I run a computer support forum and i am on the net daily reading and looking at the latest news that deals with windows operating systems."

[kmaw]

Originally Posted by clyde4210

here you go, this is a place to start.
http://www.securityfocus.com/

Under the UNIX link -- the latest article is from 2006-10-03

[Serra]

Originally Posted by quietFinn

You claimed that "hostgator was the only one effected by this exploit", but those threads in WebHostinTalk and ThePlanet forums prove that it's not true.

Plus, thePlanet forum linked to slashdot and webhostingtalking discussions about the exploit.

[whatrevolution]

Shame on you, HostGator, for not using your fricken time machine to ask the pharmacist for your antibiotics a week in advance.

WHAT KIND OF RAG TAG HOSTING OUTFIT IS THIS, ANYWAY?

[Serra]

Originally Posted by whatrevolution

Shame on you, HostGator, for not using your fricken time machine to ask the pharmacist for your antibiotics a week in advance.

WHAT KIND OF RAG TAG HOSTING OUTFIT IS THIS, ANYWAY?

You are exactly right. Reactive, just words. Proactive, just words. Hostgator needs to be FUTURE ACTIVE, they need to install patches BEFORE they are available. They need to react to exploits BEFORE anyone discovers them. They need to be running operating systems that haven't even been invented yet!