Apparently some self-proclaimed Turkish Muslim hacker hacked my utterly insignificant blog. This blog gets about 30 visitors a day, on a really good day. And I don’t know what the point of hacking this one. Who ever got in, messed up the admin accounts of the blog and changed the home page saying that he/she is Muslim and from Turkey. • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Backup & Restore, Hacked, Hacker, Restore, Security
Well! this topic is well covered here, and probably repeated all over the web. But I am going to write this post any way. Because my WordPress move went quite well. And here is how it was done. Everything Starts with Taking a Backup A move is as simple as a backup and restore. You back up • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Backup & Restore, CPannel, DNS, Domain, Domain Change, How to Move Wordpress, Moving, Moving Wordpress, My SQL, MySQL, PHP, Restore, Tech, WordPress
When it comes to buying services and complex products I always prefer buying from a local seller. This makes it easy to communicate and handle any matter that might come up when using the product or service that we buy. But in some cases the typical Sri Lankan customer relationship attitude make it a nightmare. This happened way too often with my • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Customer service, Sri Lanka, Technology, Web Hosting, WordPress, wordpress.org
When you run a website or a blog, it is partly your responsibility to keep it safe. There are many ways that a web site can be attacked. Some attacks focus on infrastructure such as network and servers, and some focus on the web application itself. When it comes to attacks on infrastructure it’s service providers job • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Blog Security, Password Security, Security, Web Site Security
In case you haven’t noticed this site was off the web for about a week from 21st January 2011. When I first noticed that it’s not there, I didn’t bother much as it could be a very short outage that happen once in a while with my hosting provider. However I got a bit nervous when I • Read More »
Tags: Backup, CPannel, Datacenter, Indi, Kottu, Kottu.org, Site Outage, Web Hosting