This is to officially announce the launch of My Site’s Been Hacked! The site contains a variety of resources including: A forum where folks can receive confidential help w/their compromised sites. Search engines do not index the forums, so your … Continue reading →
Do you have a small blog or small business website? Then you should take this quiz. & once you have, please tell your friends who own websites, so they can take it too. … Continue reading →
Almost all purveyors of shared hosting provide one or more applications by which their clients can install 3rd-party software such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Magenta, & others. My personal preference, if your hosting provider has it, is a program called … Continue reading →
There are times when it’s advantageous to create a new user for an existing database. This can be particularly helpful in a site compromise, where the database credentials should be changed in order to ensure that the criminals no longer … Continue reading →
If your website becomes compromised, one of the things the criminals may do in hopes of preventing you from fixing the hack is to block your administrative privileges on your site. If that happens, you will need to create a … Continue reading →
As discussed in the post entitled Backing Up Your Database with PhpMyAdmin, there are times when using phpMyAdmin to back up your database will not work. This is especially true if the database is quite large, causing phpMyAdmin to time … Continue reading →
A recent client of mine sent me a link to this article. Best Blog Hosting Solutions from ProBlogger While I believe many of the poins made by Darren were really excellent, I think he left out a hosting option, which, … Continue reading →
I logged into my website today & received this little wake up call. That was a good password, too! :(. Pinned the WordPress strongometer at 100%. So–the moral of the story? If you use the same username & password for … Continue reading →
Perhaps reluctantly, perhaps with great anticipation, you’ve decided you need a website. Maybe it’s for a small business startup, perhaps for a nonprofit, or perchance it’s just for your own personal use. Whatever the case, here’s what you’ll need. An … Continue reading →
