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"So, did Freeola get hacked or not?"

Well, we all know how much I loved my large collection of games and how long it took me to find them don't we?

Guess what.

They've gone.

So have the pictures.

So have my silly little flash animations and downloads.

So did the forum I had up.

I've just noticed that the forum didn't work when I checked on Monday. I don't know how, but whoever/whatever did it only deleted stuff from my folders containing the larger files. The folder with my reviews wasn't touched.

I'm annoyed now. Because I actually said I would back them all up because I haven't got a copy of them anymore! So I have no games.

:c(

I'm gonna email Freeola tomorrow just to find out if they had any problems. I've got to find all the piccies and get all the games back again now.

And re-upload them.

And pay money.

Damn.

This is Phil, P8ssed off, signing out to have a shower because I smell!

Goodbye.

For 15 minutes.

Thanks for the URL.

Meantime, I've been reading about all the vulnerabilities in PHP, in the database at http://www.securityfocus.com. Worrying how even a simple script, that contains the "phpinfo()" function, can be made to execute someone else's code. This may have been fixed in PHP4.3.2.

Anyone know what version of PHP we're on at Freeola?

http://www.10kwebhosting.com/homehost.php

I got a spam email.

"No More Sewage Back-Ups"

I just found it quite appropriate for some reason....

Same as the other two hosts mentioned, their fasthosts reseller accounts.

Go to http://www.fasthosts.co.uk and chech their terms and conditions, as well as what service support they offer.

If you find these to be good enough for you (fasthosts are a proper Web hosting company, not an ISP like Freeola) then the package on offer by the site you mention should be fine.

Any thoughts on this company?

http://www.ukwebsolutionsdirect.com/

cheeseman wrote:
> I am moving to 10k web hosting
>
> although they only allow 1 domain name per user they are still great
> value.
>
> £30 a year for unlimited web space, bandwith and pop email
> accounts!

I'm pretty sure that Freeola will have something in their T&Cs that absolves them from any consequential loss. If they don't, they're mad.

cheeseman wrote:
> All of you who have lost sites which made money for you.
>
> Could you threaten to take legal action for loss of earnings?

What's their URL, cheeseman?

cheeseman wrote:
> I am moving to 10k web hosting
>
> although they only allow 1 domain name per user they are still great
> value.
>
> £30 a year for unlimited web space, bandwith and pop email
> accounts!

cheeseman wrote:
> All of you who have lost sites which made money for you.
>
> Could you threaten to take legal action for loss of earnings?

Ha, I'm not going that far, not moving either. I did just find out that I lost an important piece of coursework though. Buggers.

Freeola have had similar problems in the past. In Januray this year I lost about 40MB of stuff from one of my sites. They e-mailed me and told me about it a week or so after the files had gone though:

Dear Freeola Customer,

We have identified your account as one of those recently affected by an
unusual and unexpected disk error on one of our servers.

As a result, you may find that some of your web pages have disappeared.
To resolve the problem, please re-upload your web files via the normal
FTP method, as described at http://www.freeola.info.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Yours Faithfully,
Freeola Customer Support Centre


It seems like an occasional problem, but they don't keep backups, so complaining will probably do very little.

The moral of the story is always keep backups!

cheeseman wrote:
> www.upminsterfc.com

I was waiting for someone to make that exact same comment!

I actually stole my design off of that. But's it's far more complicated than my site. Compicated, but made easy.

As I say, 'old git friendly.'