Shit, a webhost, Soapblox, has been hacked and the guys running it have decided they don't have the wherewithall to fight back and have shut down. Iaking all the sites with it.
These include MyLeftWing (Mary Scott O'Connor's blog) and Pam's House Blend. These are big hitter sites. so we're not talking small potatoes. keep to the Fen Causeway
If there's no spare server capacity, then you've got the job of removing data, completely reinstalling the server, updating its security, and finally replacing the data, anything up to a day per machine. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
The more I find out about the sites that sat on it, the worse it looks, there's a huge chunk of the US progressive blogosphere has gone down with Soapblox and it's looking generally grim. keep to the Fen Causeway
For certain some fine left blogs will be down for a while, at least the archives. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Colman ?? Are we still on BT ? keep to the Fen Causeway
