Hostgator – bless them – suspended this blog – this very site – once again.
Why?
Well I have been sending phishing messages. As if I would do that from a personal blog deliberately.
Why would I? It is my blog and I care about this.
Am I being naive in thinking that Hostgator shares some responsibility for protecting me from this. I am a client, a paying client and the answer to someone attacking my site is for them to say that I am a security risk and take my site down.
I have a very secure password, an up to date wordpress release, up to date plugins that I use on other sites. Aaaaagggghhh!!!
Can anyone tell me how I can track and find out the source of this continual nuisance. The problem is that Hostgator staff remove the phishing site but don’t seem to try to track the source. Surely this should be trackable by the large ISPs – I just don’t understand why they can’t stamp this out.
Can anyone tell me – is Hostgator particularly vulnerable – I have had hundreds of client sites for years without anything like this happening. This is happening so frequently on this one URL and I am really baffled.
My whole message seems to be a string of questions – but that is because I AM puzzled.
Also cross that I am being blamed by Hostgator.
Maybe I missed the announcement of “Blame The Customer Week”
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About Keith Watson
Hi - I am Keith Watson.
This blog is dedicated to Banger - a teacher from my teenage years who - at least once a week - insisted upon cracking the hilarious - and I have to say - never heard before line "What's on Watson?".
I would smile demurely - the rest of the class would fall about with sides aching - and life would go on for another week.
'Wats-on My Mind' I have decided will assist me personally as well as be of interest to others (I hope) who share my challenges. It will help keep me organised and document my activities so that I know what I did yesterday.
You think I am joking!!
I have been in the website development game since 1993 and have been involved with over 2000 website builds (with the help of my fantastic team of freelance programmers)
It was only in the last two years though that I have moved over to making money for myself on line and in particular linking up with an amazing talent called Adam Eason to produce and distribute self help and hypnotherapy products.
As a result of looking to promote these products I have downloaded hundreds of internet marketing articles and e-books, studied countless reports, tested list building tactics, butterflied, boot-camped, buzzed, adsensed, affiliated, met a jerk, jv'ed, plr given-awayed, and generally suffered from information overload.
My computer - presumably in a fit of pique or simply demanding a holiday has given up the ghost on at least two occassions - causing me even more stress.
Oh this simple business of making money online.
BUT the great news is that it is all working and our list has grown - I have found some gurus I have complete faith in - and Adam and I are actually making money from our endeavours.
Some way to go but I am more relaxed and can spot a phoney over hyped, sexed up, must have latest product which you must either buy or if not, simply fade into oblivion. There’s not room on this Internet for the two of us.
This ramble of an introduction is really to set the scene for I am sure an interesting journey which I invite you to join. In fact I want you to help me find the right tools, scripts, plugins etc. etc, that will catapult me into the stratosphere of success. I hope you will be there with me.
I don't just consider success in a monetary sense. I so want to help some friends of mine who are involved in Christian missionary work in some pretty harrowing parts of this world. If I can bring any help to their missions that will give me more satisfaction than anything else.
I really, really do love this web stuff and the people you meet. I am convinced that this powerful technology can be harnessed to do some good.
