Something Went Wrong
Just a couple of days after I was able to get most of the spam attacks on the site under control, the company that hosts this website, IPOWER, was apparently hacked and many accounts including mine may have been compromised. The passwords for some 700,000 websites had to be changed as a result. I’ve thought very hard about changing hosting companies at least 3 times in the past couple of years but this looks to be the last straw. Fortunately I noticed the problem fairly quickly but any site visitors on Tuesday January 20, 2009 should make sure they are using updated virus software (I use Bit Defender which immediately alerted me).
Meanwhile, IPOWER has apparently implemented some security changes that are preventing me from updating the blog and blocking user comments as well. I’m trying to get the blog back to working but for now it is completely frozen. In the meantime, I am going to try setting up a different blog while I decide what to do long term. As a last resort, I will be posting comments on this page.
One bit of good news for subscribers of The Metal Augmentor is that we are finally starting to provide some updated content for the service although the website is still not fully functional yet. Please go to www.metalaugmentor.com/updates.php for the latest information and content. We are going to try running a blog over there as well, and I don’t expect the same problems as I’ve had here because we selected a much more reliable hosting company for that site.
Fortunately, the blog itself has been backed up and all posts and comments are preserved. I’m not sure, however, that I will be able to fully restore everything. The blog archive content is not available while this page is displayed but I will be taking down and putting back up this page over the next few days so more readers will be able to see it.
For your reference, here are the links to the current pages with information:
Main Site Index Page: http://www.silveraxis.com/index.html
Blog Page: http://silveraxis.com/todayinsilver/
If I am not able to get the original blog going again, I will have to start with a new blog in which case I will be posting the links to the new blog on this page.
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