All Your Eggs in One Basket and Security

I have 10 or 12 domains that I purchased through Registry Rocket, HG's registrar, and I agree, after I contacted them, they explained how to find them, and I still couldn't locate them. Their over-priced and the service sucks.

Definitely keep my domains and hosting seperate, and am even considering using multiple hosting accounts as time and money permits.

This thread drives home a message that applies online and off. As my wife, son, and myself all worked for the same company for 2 years and due to a rather abrupt take-over, and rumors (lies) from the previous owner stating; we'd all have our positions well into the new year... it didn't play out like that, and we all got walking papers last Tuesday.

Arguably, I saw this coming when we all took the jobs initially, as I can be quite hot-headed, and feared if one of us were to have a disagreement, it would effect the whole. Amazingly, it was a rather unespected series of events, but I am actually glad, as we're moving on.

Back to the topic... My 'unlimited' HostGator business account currently has nearly 75k files uploaded, and I just now realized; they only allow 100k files max... so much for 'unlimited,' huh?

With that said, I actually like HG for hosting, so, my complaint remains with their domain registrar, just to clarify things.

Never-the-less, I can easily reduce the files by using Amazon S3, and deleting a bunch of junk. But to think someone established as the OP points out having a malicious attack destroy a life's work, I have seen this repeated throughout my life offline as well.

The hard part being, for every sense of security or honest effort, there's a locksmith, coder, or villain out there with equal or greater knowledge who can crack open a vault, and prey on the unsuspecting, which really pisses me off.

Maybe, we should revert to the old days, and start hanging people of such vicious intentions.

Thanks for the heads up, great share.

Art

Also a good point, with all the free open source plugins, it almost seems too easy for a programmer to gain access through a number of portals, as was so with Tim Thumb app which was quite popular, and later proved an access point for hackers.

While, I am slowly learning WP, I am a far cry from being competent enough to understand programming at the security levels required to actually feel my computer or my sites are truly ever safe.

There's too many people whom I know (indirectly) who have a massive amount of technical knowledge, and still cannot prevent malicious malware, viruses, and hackers from screwing up their sites, or more over their livelihood.

One of my affiliates (and Warrior) had quite a battle with a similar experience, causing his sites to go down for a week or so.

I am curious to know if all this 'cloud storage' will be a safer, and more effective way to house and transfer our data, but I am far from educated on it yet to really know if it is an alternative to the poblems discussed here?

All the Best,

Art

PS- I did invest recently in an external hard-drive, and still probably don't back-up as often as I should.

I think wordpress is targeted a bit more than other types of sites, but there are also security measures you can take to make sure you are less likely to get hacked.

Benjamin Ehinger

Separating the domain registration and the hosting matters only if/when something goes wrong. (Which, as we all know, "only happens all the time").

If your host isn't also your registrar, then in the event of any accident/problem, if anything ever goes wrong with your hosting, you're in control, not them. And can avoid nightmares, disasters, long delays and entirely unexpected "ransom demands". And can re-host your site somewhere else the next day, minimising the commercial interruption.

There's a large number of horror stories of hosting/registration/control disasters scattered about the forum, almost all of which could have been avoided by registering and hosting in two different places.

Brad expresses it very well, with several well-known examples, in this post.

It's one of those issues which so many people look at and think to themselves "Eew, well, those are all other people: it wouldn't ever happen to me". Until someone on one of their lists reports them, even with absolutely no justification at all, to their host for alleged "spamming" and their website disappears and the host (in accordance with its TOS which few people have ever read all the way through at the time they registered the domain) suddenly wants hundreds of dollars to release the domain so they can get it back online somewhere else.

The point is that "whether something goes wrong" may not be within your own control - it can be just one of those pretty random things that Winston Churchill called "events". :rolleyes: