Writing or typing to write is not easy. Every person can not write. But some not only write but enjoy doing it. Words flow from nowhere into a blog for such people. Yet sometime a blogger is unable to write or in my case publish.
Perfection block:
In past few months I have publishes less than a dozen published articles. I was not in writers block but was in a perfection block. Most of my writing start with mobile phone. Continue reading
It appears that economical hosting which godaddy.com offered was a ploy to lure people and then offer upgrade. I pondered over the question for about a month that if I should take the upgrade? But my principle is once a dishonest, always dishonest.
(Dear subscribers to this blog, if you are reading this in wordpress reader and has not received in email, please visit and follow again.)
It is interesting thing to call somebody dishonest. You have to have a proof. I have given the proof in previous post. Godday.com has not responded to it. At all. In fact the stony silence on their part is that of a dishonest person who is caught red handed.
A dangerous trend has emerged recently. Corporations, especially big multinational ones have learned two thing about India. 1) Law enforcement is pathetically slow and expensive; 2) with millions of consumer steal uneconomical or small amount. Continue reading
It is several months. Trying my hand on different hosting services. Some refunded some forgot.
But what is the way out.
Every hosting has a catch. BlueHost comes most recommended but also highest priced in terms of Bharat (Indian) Rupee. And also difficult to reach under Indian law. I have already tried about four hosts.
Unlimited web hosting from UK is something I am trying but Plesk hosting panel seems incompatible with wordpress. Their support seems to have been vanished. But why?
Presently I think the mistake is with wordpress. They run a free version (with built-in plugins) which is never released to world. This is how the new free world order is dead even before it could make an impact.
No issues. They do it for what they earn from advertisements. No problem.
But at the end of day. It is not about an average guy. It is about a nerd who has four arms in CMS.
The point is wordpress.com CMS is good enough for blog on a website enclosed by hard coded secure place but not as an independent CMS.
What I have discovered is that wordpress can be manipulated with right commands from the browser sings to command far more than an average user can make a system dance from Linux terminal.
It appears that all the experience of past four years with word press is wasted as it can not survive in open ocean of deepweb without commercial software. So much from the free wordpress.com.
WordPress.com uses security software at server level which are not available to an average user. Some of these additions/plugins/security measure are available at a price and my guess is that is a part of financing the project of blogging.
But real security wordpress.com ensure is from its server configuration not from wordpress.com CMS which is mostly stupid stuff for an average user.
May be it is time to move on to something better like Joomla. But is that really better?
Presently after or really with the labyrinth, self-hosted websites are accessible from public but I can not write or add anything.
So much for user friendliness. But that word is always an euphemism for inviting people to fall into trap. Sorry no trap. This is how technical stuff is sold.
Great! A new challenge.
Blogging and self hosting is such a pain at all the wrong places. It becomes worst if the Host offering vps is new or inexperienced. GIC Webworld appears to be such a host. But they will rank several notch above hosting.india.to about whom I shall soon write a review. Few months back we (me and few friends) had started a legal online magazine at LawAndJustice.Asia. Since day before yesterday at night, somebody broke into the servers of my host and uploaded a script. Infact this somebody is known or proclaimed (see screen shot.) They are turkhackteam.net.
Who are these people. Why they are what they are. Why violence is so important. The web is really a reflection of human mind.
This screen shot is generated from a script. Part of script is as under:
<!–DOCTYPE html>
<!– saved from url=(0026)http://lawandjustice.asia/ –>
<html lang=”en-US” prefix=”og: http://ogp.me/ns#”><head><meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″><title>Hacked By Triple Defacers</title>var adfly_id = 5422646;
</script><script type=”text/javascript”>
var adfly_id = 5422646;
var adfly_advert = ‘int’;
var frequency_cap = 5;
var frequency_delay = 5;
var init_delay = 3;
var popunder = true;
</script>
Now the interesting part is to find location of this script. Where it is?
Searching “Hacked by Triple defacer” on Google reveals that numerous websites (some working fine) have these words in their header or somewhere including the above one but we and our host are not able to find it’s location.
The option they suggest is to re-install. But that is no solution. If there is a vulnerability, it must be addressed first. May be I should, not only re-install but also relocate it!
I am very much tempted to re-install the whole thing but they can do it again. Or may be the problem may be somewhere else because serving host is naïve and his suggestion is a mere speculation. Until they actually find the problem, it just an educated guess.
Surprising thing is that wp install is perfectly fine. Word fence detected the changes I had made in one file but except that there is nothing to detect. iTheme is the other security and it reported nothing.
Any help out there? Waiting for some good Samaritan.
There is one thing I did change. Anonymous ftp account is open by default. I do not know why? I have unchecked it and now doing a fresh install. Let us see, what happens.
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