Urgent Update Regarding Midnight Whispers
Mods, hope this is okay to post here. I just received an important update regarding Midnight Whispers, and Bob, the senior administrator, asked me to pass the following message along to everyone. He also wants everyone to know how much he appreciates your words of support. Here it is:
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Midnight Whispers is offline and will probably be that way for at least several days due to a very sophisticated and complicated spambot invasion that also crippled Servage Hosting globally. They lost half of Germany about 2 weeks ago and I'd bet they are still barely hanging on.
Moving to Host Gator is already underway but first we must fix this infestation in our files for new back ups.
We not only have the expensive $ 50 hourly rate of our software engineer which has to clean up our files to avoid an old back up transfer to the new host, but our bandwidth today - 60+GB a week and growing - will be costly to maintain and this old man on a fixed income can't do it alone.
We spent a lot of budget working on the version upgrade to finally determine we're better off staying with the current version. The newer eFiction version of SQL is ancient. The girl modifying eFiction has pretty much abandoned the project and the eFiction geek blog is a graveyard. No help there to speak of.
My software man is concentrating on cleaning our files from one of the most maliciously determined malware programs we have seen with our over 30 years in computers. I have opened an account with Host Gator and I'm learning their way of doing things - getting ready for the move and to manage it.
In the nearly 5 years I've been your admin, this is without question the greatest threat Whispers has ever faced. The Internet has become a very dangerous place for everyone. Add to that we have growing pains. We are simply getting too big to stay free anymore if we hope to stay online. With the number of hits and amount of bandwidth we use daily, hosting companies charge for that just like your electricity company charges for the amount of KWH you use. And lets not forget the additional expense coming up to obtain state of the art website security.
With these new web threats and how bad it is, I won't know the final cost of the cures, and the move to Host Gator until it's over. This attack has only one purpose - to shut us down forever.
Donations are truly needed. They go into a verified PayPal account. To give a Midnight Whispers donation with PayPal just login in, click Send Money, and type:
nocrashrc@yahoo.com
THIS IS WAR!
Bob, senior admin, Midnight Whispers
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Midnight Whispers is offline and will probably be that way for at least several days due to a very sophisticated and complicated spambot invasion that also crippled Servage Hosting globally. They lost half of Germany about 2 weeks ago and I'd bet they are still barely hanging on.
Moving to Host Gator is already underway but first we must fix this infestation in our files for new back ups.
We not only have the expensive $ 50 hourly rate of our software engineer which has to clean up our files to avoid an old back up transfer to the new host, but our bandwidth today - 60+GB a week and growing - will be costly to maintain and this old man on a fixed income can't do it alone.
We spent a lot of budget working on the version upgrade to finally determine we're better off staying with the current version. The newer eFiction version of SQL is ancient. The girl modifying eFiction has pretty much abandoned the project and the eFiction geek blog is a graveyard. No help there to speak of.
My software man is concentrating on cleaning our files from one of the most maliciously determined malware programs we have seen with our over 30 years in computers. I have opened an account with Host Gator and I'm learning their way of doing things - getting ready for the move and to manage it.
In the nearly 5 years I've been your admin, this is without question the greatest threat Whispers has ever faced. The Internet has become a very dangerous place for everyone. Add to that we have growing pains. We are simply getting too big to stay free anymore if we hope to stay online. With the number of hits and amount of bandwidth we use daily, hosting companies charge for that just like your electricity company charges for the amount of KWH you use. And lets not forget the additional expense coming up to obtain state of the art website security.
With these new web threats and how bad it is, I won't know the final cost of the cures, and the move to Host Gator until it's over. This attack has only one purpose - to shut us down forever.
Donations are truly needed. They go into a verified PayPal account. To give a Midnight Whispers donation with PayPal just login in, click Send Money, and type:
nocrashrc@yahoo.com
THIS IS WAR!
Bob, senior admin, Midnight Whispers