My Sites Got Hacked Again!

16 years ago

Hostgator has been outstanding for the last few years for me, with the exception of the last few weeks. I think that they are overwhelmed by their holiday sales, but overall, they have been good. Support is very fast.

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TinkBD 16 years ago

Hostgator was great for me in the past, when I had this problem on an ongoing basis.

FYI - In my case, the problem was on my laptop and we weren't able to stop it from happening until we reformatted the computer.

I was running much strong anti virus and malware protection and nothing actually showed up in scans. However, the problem stopped after the laptop was reformatted.

Just sayin'

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rain21

16 years ago

thanks, what about go daddy ?

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Istvan Horvath 16 years ago

Originally Posted by rain21

thanks, what about go daddy ?

Don't use it for hosting. If you have no other choice, you may want to buy your domains there - although I prefer namecheap - but forget their hosting.
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- rackverse 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath
  
  Don't use it for hosting. If you have no other choice, you may want to buy your domains there - although I prefer namecheap - but forget their hosting.
  
  Ditto...don't host with them.
  
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  CesarGalano 16 years ago
  
  Long history short. Hostgator is the way to go.
  
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sbucciarel Banned 16 years ago

Originally Posted by rain21

thanks, what about go daddy ?

Godaddy is a horrible host. I buy some domains there, but never hosting. Hostgator or Hostmonster are the best IMO
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donhx 16 years ago

Originally Posted by rain21

thanks, what about go daddy ?

IMO, GoDaddy is not an option for anyone who wants to make money online. They pack sites on one server (I have counted 300 before) and they don't seem to do much server balancing. That means a server can be extremely sluggish. They would be my last choice.
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Snak3 16 years ago

Originally Posted by rain21

thanks, what about go daddy ?

I'd never recommend that. Bob Parsons was on the verge of selling off Godaddy a few months back and the estimations were going up to $1 billion+.

Anyways getting bak to the point, Godaddy is slow and when it feels like a linkfarm in itself. Like they have to market all their products on one page which is the homepage.

I've been using Fatcow webhosting for a while now and it's great. Excellent support, negligible downtime and pretty renowned too. I'd vouch for it.
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foxanthony

16 years ago

I've never even thought of security when it comes to hosting. I'm using hostmonster I hope they are okay.

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Darla

16 years ago

I used quality host online. There customer service is Superb! There downtown is minimal. You always get advance warning if they plan to be down and if something happens unexpected and you email them they respond quickly! Love it!

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rackverse

16 years ago

I like hostgator and Dreamhost (unlimited everything for $11/mo)

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Istvan Horvath

16 years ago

My sites got hacked and this not for the first time. I’m now going to change my hosting provider for the 3rd time.

Are you sure the hack came through your host?

I know it is possible: if there is a weak site on shared hosting and the bad guys get access to one account... they can also access other accounts on that server.
And yes, it happens with many hosts.

However, another possibility is having some malware on your computer and the bad guys get access (pw and user info) directly from your machine.

Just make sure you check all the possible intrusion points...

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dvduval

16 years ago

Hostgator, Hostmonster, Dreamhost, Godaddy, Bluehost are all hosts that have large scale attacks in their history. They are all decent operations, but they are hosts designed to sell in volume. For shared hosting, I think Arvixe is a real up and commer (but still specializes in volume).

If your budget allows, you will be more secure when there are fewer sites on your server. A VPS would be a great way to go. I really like Servint.

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Ken 16 years ago

Hostgator and NameCheap for me.

Been buying my domains at NameCheap for a few years now and decided
to try their hosting a few months ago. So far it's been reliable though it will
probably be a year or two to be certain.

Been hosting with HostGator for several years and have never had a problem
that was not swiftly corrected.

In my opinion GoDaddy is not the place for hosting.

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Mega B

16 years ago

I use wholesaleinternet.net but i have to say something is drastically wrong somehow,moving all of your sites to 3 differant hosting providers has to back this theory of mine that you have a security issue with 'your' sites and one of the 100 is causing the problem so the hackers are gaining access and then doing damage to many of your sites.

You are going to have to sit down and find out what is the security flaw rather than keep moving host,but i could be wrong.

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Andyheaven

16 years ago

In my experience Bluehost is the best because you can edit html files on their platform.

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allseowork

16 years ago

I provide hosting service and in my experience all hacking attempts are successful only by script vulnerability.. its too difficult to crack on server level..
one of my site got hacked recently by Tunisian hacker

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16 years ago

Originally Posted by Dario James

My sites got hacked and this not for the first time. I'm now going to change my hosting provider for the 3rd time.

Whoa whoa whoa, this is NOT the first time, and its NOT the same host provider? You wouldn't be happening to use passwords that are similar to past passwords, or simple passwords that are easy to remember or that have any relation to something you like?
1. Use a password that has no relevance to ANYTHING. Not a birthday, not anything. Mine are based off a random mnemonic. Seriously. I have like 10 passwords on one variation that are in no way related to each other.
2. Never use the same passwords.
3. Don't use the same security questions or questions that are easy to figure out, like mothers maiden name.
4. Change all your Email passwords. They could be figuring out your hosting passwords through an Email account.

Also, I use ipage. They are really nice, helpful and they have a IM chat support thing.
Hope you have better luck this time.

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cjseven

16 years ago

If you have 100 sites maybe some script is outdated or the hackers leave backdoors on your files.

If you have any of these changing host provider will not help. You must "clean" your files first and detect how they enter your account(s).

Also, 100 sites deserve at least a VPS.

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CMCarlin

16 years ago

Agree with others here. Why is it that you assume that this has to do with your host and not your website? If you've moved 3 times and you are still getting hacked, then logic dictates that it may be the sites themselves hackers are taking advantage of a vulnerability.

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Dario James

16 years ago

Thanks for your opinions.

I should have been more clear in my posting. I changed hosting providers twice before but for other reasons than getting hacked. It was more the problem of downtime and support.

Hostnine is the only host that has not been able to protect my sites. That's the second time now. It has nothing to do with not keeping the scripts up to date. Many of them are simple html files.

I contacted them and they told me that all websites on this particular server got hacked.

I'm now uploading my backed-up files again.

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Mar

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Dario James

I'm now uploading my backed-up files again.

Dario - just a thought; when did you make the backups? If it was after the first hack on the server, there will be corrupt files in there somewhere ....

Hope not

- but it could be why a hacker's able to get back into the server environment so easily.

Mar

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Dario James

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Mar

Dario - just a thought; when did you make the backups? If it was after the first hack on the server, there will be corrupt files in there somewhere ....

Hope not

- but it could be why a hacker's able to get back into the server environment so easily.

Mar

Hi Mar,

Thanks for your thought but I've uploaded the original files again.

Cheers,
Dario

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Josh Anderson

16 years ago

Hostgator has bad security history with multiple security breaches over the last year.

One of my employees used to admin many clients on Hostgator but after repeated hackers getting in through HOSTGATOR's system and after hostgator telling him to leave the malicious scripts when they were told about the security breaches...

He is now pushing all his clients to move from hostgator.

This is after a pattern of security weeknesses and breaches in hostgator's service not one isolated incident.

So if you want to get away from security problems... DO NOT go to a shared hosting environment. Go dedicated and improve your own security practices and harden your server.

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Dario James

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Josh Anderson

Hostgator has bad security history with multiple security breaches over the last year.

One of my employees used to admin many clients on Hostgator but after repeated hackers getting in through HOSTGATOR's system and after hostgator telling him to leave the malicious scripts when they were told about the security breaches...

He is now pushing all his clients to move from hostgator.

This is after a pattern of security weeknesses and breaches in hostgator's service not one isolated incident.

So if you want to get away from security problems... DO NOT go to a shared hosting environment. Go dedicated and improve your own security practices and harden your server.

Thanks Josh. Good to know.
So which company's do you recommend for a dedicated server?

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Josh Anderson 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Dario James

Thanks Josh. Good to know.
So which company's do you recommend for a dedicated server?

I was going to say:

Softlayer.com and Theplanet.com

But what do you know... the planet has merged with softlayer!
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jasonmorgan

16 years ago

My sites got hacked and this not for the first time. I’m now going to change my hosting provider for the 3rd time.

I don't think the issue is your hosting. Look for junk crawling around on your computer or the wacky plugins your running.

I have 5 hosting accounts with godaddy. No issues, EVER.

Godaddy and Hostgator are fine for small sites with low traffic. Once you put on your big boy pants you're going to run into issues. Don't expect fantastic results with a $5 a month unlimited everything account. Use some common sense.

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cjseven

16 years ago

Since your are from Europe I would say ovh.com. I have a dedicated there and so far so good.

In USA I had nice VPS experiences with jaguarpc.com, knownhost.com, vpslatch.com (this is a new one, been there just 3 months) and wiredtree.com

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MarketingVet09

16 years ago

If enough people haven't already convinced you: Host gator, period... Don't even do any other research, just get them, period

... (will save you hours and days of frustration in the future, this is coming from personal experience)

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JackPowers

16 years ago

I've always used Hostgator and they've been great all along. Cheap and reliable, but I don't have any big sites so have no idea how that would work.

If you have that many sites, perhaps it's time to consider getting your own server. Shouldn't be that expensive and there's a ton of other stuff you can run from it as well.

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MarketingVet09

16 years ago

Originally Posted by JackPowers

I've always used Hostgator and they've been great all along. Cheap and reliable, but I don't have any big sites so have no idea how that would work.

If you have that many sites, perhaps it's time to consider getting your own server. Shouldn't be that expensive and there's a ton of other stuff you can run from it as well.

True, but the thing is, with Hostgator everything uses cpanel, from the shared hosting to the dedicated servers... He could start on a baby plan, and if it dosen't work, just tell them to move him to a VPS, and if that dosent work, just tell them to move him to a dedicated server (and there are various levels of VPS's and dedicated servers).

No other way to go besides Hostgator if you ask me. You can bug their 100++ online live chat associates to death even if you have self inflicted problems.

Oh and to thread start, if you have 100 sites, I would assume you have to be making some decent money?? Lol, dedicated server, or at the very least a high end VPS should be no problem.

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roger6000

16 years ago

When you are saying your sites are hacked are you talking about wordpress based sites which are affected by trojans which infect others when they visit your websites?. This has been a common attack across several wordpress based blogs. It may happen because of ftp sessions being hijacked or because of some of the unsecure plugins so please take caution towards those. Always use sftp(secure) as far as that option is available. Hostgator is really better interms of uptime. I had dreamhost too but these days my dreamhost hosted blogs are timing out and throwing several errors. I prefer hostgator is better.

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simplebutcreative

16 years ago

hostnine? I've never heard of that company...Well, you should try HostGator. It's the best in my opinion for shared hosting. They have a great customer support and the network uptime is the best so far. My blog hasn't gone down one bit...

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entrepreneurjay

16 years ago

Hostgator for me too. Their customer service is second to none!

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Diane S 16 years ago

If you are searching for a reliable hosting company, I recommend a reseller account with HostGator. 100 sites fits fine...no need for a dedicated server for that few.
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- kindsvater 16 years ago
  
  If you keep getting hacked it is not a hosting issue. You have malware on your computer. It can be a real pain to find and delete.
  
  You may need to try various anti-virus and malware programs. Each finds different baddies.
  
  Try this:
  
  MalwareBytes ( Malwarebytes )
  ComboFix ( A guide and tutorial on using ComboFix )
  
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mmcqueen

16 years ago

I've been with Hostnine for several years...hadn't had any problems with them.

Michael

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money2k

16 years ago

Another vote for Hostgator here. Top Notch support. Excellent prices.

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RichKent

16 years ago

Hostgator has been excellent.

Bluehost is ok too, however they have CPU issues on some of their servers.

As others have said, don't host at godaddy. Absolute pita to work with. If a host doesn't offer cpanel then don't use them!