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[oblivious]

Just came across this:

[BarryK]

I've been looking at this site:
http://www.webhostingjury.com/
It is customer reviews of web hosts.

I am of course looking at where to move puppylinux.com. One thing, they must accept PayPal, which rules out Netfirms. The reason for PayPal is that it gives you more control, and they can't do an automatic renew. I was with Netfirms and they required that I telephone them in the US to cancel the account -- not at all satisfactory.

Hostgator looks interesting:
http://www.hostgator.com/
...they include SSH, I missed that with Servage.

Godaddy was recommended to me by one person, but the customer reviews are awful.

So, what do you reckon, does Hostgator look good? I want this for my own sites. I have puppylinux.com, goosee.com, plus a couple other small private domains.
For puppylinux.org and some other Puppy domains, there is a separate effort going on to find a better home than Servage.

I think having two separate homes is a good thing. Of course this forum is hosted at yet another place ( -- does John mind if the host is known?)

We need to avoid "all the eggs in one basket".

[Caneri]

Hi Barry,

I looked at http://drupal.org/.
There is lots of recommended hosts on the forum there.

May be of use to you.

I didn't need any phone calls about PayPal here....but I'm on .ca not Netfirms.com...maybe a difference..dunno.

Best,
Eric

[prehistoric]

Don't assume puppylinux.org is safe. See this thread. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27374

Yes, oblivious, you could say others are being messed with, hardly a secret. Here's a report on media reaction to one current wave of attacks. Danchev on PR storm

Even if exploits do not apply to us, a redirect through a search engine can bring others to an infected page. Puppy's page rank makes it a reasonable target for rank manipulation on search engines.

[oblivious]

[prehistoric]

[Sage]

Hope that BK is going to appraise us of today's events. Early this morning (GMT), his static blog appeared with a couple of new items about Abiword. Now, it's been replaced by his old interactive blog which stopped with his Feb27 item on XDiff. Presume he's got all this under control?

[oblivious]

[Sage]

Return of the Blog!

[prehistoric]

@oblivious,

Thinking these problems are only solved by wizardry is part of trouble people generally have in combating them. When you happen across an infected page you can use a right click and "show source" to get the html source which you can submit that to a group which tracks spamming or malware and works to get the culprits shut down. (N.B.: I am not talking about the visible page - which may have distracting pictures. You want to report the URL, the time and the page source.)
@ anyone: I would like to hear suggestions from others about their favorite reporting sites. before I make recommendations.

You don't need much expertise to report a problem to the webmaster if a page on their site takes you someplace you don't want to go. If there is a chance posting a report on a forum could create problems by luring people into a trap you can report directly via PM or email.

By using Puppy you are already reducing your chances of spreading an infection. By restricting the scripts your browser runs you can reduce risk still further. By reporting you can limit damage to others.

The one thing I want to emphasize is that there is no "silver bullet" which destroys all risk! Puppy is not magic, it requires intelligent users - as does any computer system.

prehistoric

[jonyo]

Running win on the net is a lost cause.

[BarryK]

[oblivious]

[pch.shot]

These are two little applications that may be of some use to track down the hackers currports:http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
and IPNetInfo:http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html
That way maybe we can find out who the hacker is and kick him in the nuts.
lol, pch

[wingruntled]

pch.shot wrote: