It’s 2018

So the site got hacked…

For anyone interested in the gory details, someone figured out how to hack WordPress and, before we could work in a fix, our whole operation got taken over by a nefarious actor who loaded all our pages with links to his malware sites.

So this site is hosted at HostGator and my package includes some third party malware monitoring and they caught it and called me in the middle of the night and told me I had a problem and if I didn’t fix it, they were going to blacklist me. At first, I didn’t trust them because I had never heard of them except as a throwaway item in my Hostgator deal.

So, I called HostGator and, for a small fee, they were able to restore the site from backup. And that worked for exactly one day and, as you may have noticed, we were not generating a bunch of updates so the loss was negligible. Then apparently, something was not right in the WordPress space and the site was down until the WordPress people pushed out an update today.

So it looks like we’re back in business. A bunch of things worked but some didn’t and we were down for a month or two.

Anyway, if you’re keeping score, we’re satisfied with HostGator and we’re happy with WordPress and whoever that site monitoring company is.

I say all of that to say this: things change. And why we’re still an SPRobot, we need to move on or move out so we’re going to try to mix in some new stuff. One of our new stuffs is our new friends at the StratusFactory. They got started with MS Azure and do some cool stuff but even that might not work out for us so stay tuned.

-robot