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c/o Dean Barker at dKos

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

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 12:36:09 PM EST
It is a real pain when you get hacked, minimum, you're going to be offline for several hours, while you transfer and repair the databases and webpages.

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.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 01:18:57 PM EST
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right now it's looking very bad. the guy that ran SoapBlox was a one-man band and he can't do all the work that will be needed to fix this. So, unless somebody organises some big community activity, it's offline permanantly and has taken all of the hosted sites with it.

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

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 01:29:19 PM EST
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Yes, I'm looking through various sites, and unfortunately it needs to be someone there on the ground to help fix the problem. Its not safe to put the machines back on the net to fix things, and it may be much more difficult to recover things, depending on the extent of damage.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 01:34:09 PM EST
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I've often thought we should be on our own, with a backup server capability, that this never happens to us.  Perhaps we should consider this a wake up call.  I wouldn't want to wait until it's a warning shot or worse.

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

by Crazy Horse on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 01:39:46 PM EST
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I thought we were.

Colman ?? Are we still on BT ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 01:42:07 PM EST
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Still on Booman's server.

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 01:59:03 PM EST
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Always be on a host that can offer redundancy.
by paving on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 02:10:08 PM EST
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