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"This should be interesting. Freeola admin should read it too!"

http://www.theregister.com/content/55/31552.html

This sounds quite interesting.

What you win, I don't know, but I can see a fair few of the crappy hosts going down, Freeola are pretty big so it will be interesting to see what happens...

And seeeing how Bargainhost got attacked a few months ago, I see them as potential target.

Now I'm not an expert on web security, but with 20,000 people trying, lets say 19,000 of them are little 11 year olds trying to 'hack' by entering random passwords, that leaves us with 1,000 people who know what they're doing...

It will be interesting.

And I want the people from Freeola to listen because I got loads of games and stuff up on my webspace and I don't want to have to upload them all again because:
a) It will take aaaaages
b) I haven't got them anymore!

*waits*

Where are you heading to?

ye but i need to get my whole site downloaded anyway as i am switching web hosts and apparently freeola just delete the stuff that is on your site!

I might save my games.

I love my games.

Plus they privide me with about 40000000% of my visitors!

If Freeola have any major doubts though, they'll shut down. Is it really worth the risk?

The only way really is to go via the 'http' and save every file one by one, but I'd expect if Freeola were worries about this, they would do a back-up of their customers web sites.

That would be the sensible thing to do, just in case.

But if you are conserned about your site, then it is worth the money to dial up and back it up .. as if Freeola are targeted, and they don't do a back-up, no amount of complaining will get you your site back.

It all depends on how much you want to ensure its still around later (just in case).

is there anyway that i can download the whole of my site without having to download every single little file? and also without out dialing up my freeola connection and copying the whole site back on to my pc?

so basically i wanna download my site using broadband connection using one download.

Yeah.

Plus if a host liek Freeola has any doubts over their safety, all the have to do is put a notice out that the servers will be down during that time.

I doubt people will moan that much if it's the best way to prevent anything from going wrong...

Is the link about the "defacers challenge" this sunday?

Memorandum wrote:
> Well that's a contest for pathetic losers.

You entering ;c)

Well that's a contest for pathetic losers.

.. but the fact that Freeola don't offer SSH access (or whatever it is) is a bonus, as that is how the hackers got to bargainhosts apparently.