Features Of A Web Hosting Review Web Site
Both from a customers point of view and a hosts perspective. What features would you like to see a web hosting review web site have?
I know most would like:
* No affiliate/paid advertiser links for so called 'top hosts'
* Advertisers to be clearly displayed as advertisers/affiliates
* Rating system to be rated on actual reviews, pricing, uptime, features
* Ability for host to respond to review made by customer
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(I did not see any) This was actually caused due to a hole in the blackberry service by vodafone. Very high fi group of hackers hacked into the vulnerable blackberry software linked to one of the directories in the main webhostingbuzz list of folders and tried to take down the website. Never the less it was detected well in time (within 15 to 30 minutes) by our top admins. We are planning to sue Vodafone Europe for about $120,000 lost during the downtime caused by them. Well all of this is confidential and I would appreciate if you could keep it yourself while we release more details officially in the due time. Cheers" I understand that this may seem confidential, but i have been searching the internet high and low till this day for a year now and have not found a single article about Vodafones relation with WHB and WHB suing Vodafone. So this leads me to believe what i was told was not the truth and was merely said to boost my confidence in WHB? Maybe im being very cynical here, but the way that message was written and the words used was as if it was addressed to a kid on false pretence? I can now see why reseller hosting is cheap. No doubt i really did get my moneys worth. $57 = £30 for the whole year. Early June - Early July As the server loads were getting really bad my emails and client emails halted and were not functioning at all. It just continued! Mid July - More websites defaced We thought our problems were over? No - websites were still hacked and defaced it was time i had to do something about it. I was kept being told that the servers were fine, a senior member of staff told me they had the best server security and firewall. Clearly after what i have outlined above they dont! Again i allowed senior vBulletin staff to be in my shoes, i gave them ftp, shell, cpanel access etc vBulletin staff had carried out extensive research over the weeks and finally reached a unanimous decision among them. The result concluded that the server was the only thing to blame. Read on to see how they reached their conclusion. Late July WHB servers were compromised yet again one way or another. Like all the staff at vBulletin Mike Sullivan was the one who had helped me the most and had spent hours communicating with me to get to the bottom of what i was facing. I have sought permission from Mike Sullivan to mention him from vBulletin for this review. Here is an extract from our ticket: Mike Sullivan - "Hi, I have focused on **********.co.uk and that seemed to turn up something interesting. In the logs, I found this line: 212.71.37.96 - - [29/Jul/2008:11:56:42 +0000] "GET /forum/calendar.php?c=1&week=1167523200&do=displayweek&month=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 117 [url] 3A209.51.154.100+powered+by+3.6&go=&form=QBRE" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ar; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16" This is about 40 minutes before the deface happened. The interesting part is the referrer: [url] This is a search for all sites on a particular IP (209.51.54.100), with "powered by 3.6" on them. Your sites are the top 2 results. While this means that they were targeting vB specifically, by limiting it to an IP, that indicates that they already had access to that server and were using a separate search to help them find more things to deface. Between this entry in the log and when the defacement happened, there were 2 hits to /forum/ and absolutely nothing else. That just has to point to the server being compromised. The does look pretty definitive to me this time. I think it's time to change hosts. Perhaps look at a VPS, where you're not paying for an entire server, but you are completely segregated from the other people on it. Please let me know if you require any further assistance. Mike Sullivan Developer Team, vBulletin" So i had presented this to WHB and told them about the particular search query the hackers were attempting. 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WHB Senior Technician - "Can you please ask VB techs for some assumptions about how exactly these sites might be hacked using server-side security flaws? I don't see any reasonable way to do it. Possibly some specific PHP settings might create VB security issue, or something like that? Either VB guys meant something certain they know about, or they just said "this is not our product's vulnerability because this can not be our product's vulnerability". We'd really appreciate some hints from them." vBulletin - "Hacked passwords are by far the most common method of compromising a server. However there are literally hundreds of other possibilities due to the wide range of applications on a server and the need to constantly monitor them all and keep them up-to-date. In short this appears to be a brush-off. You host knows very well the multitude of ways a server or account on a server can be compromised. Or at least they should. Please see this thread on how to make your vBulletin more secure: How To Make My Forums More Secure - vBulletin Community Forum If you are still being hacked after doing all of this, then they are most likely doing this by accessing your server or account on the server. There are currently no known exploits in the latest unmodified version of vB. Best regards, Steve Machol Customer Support Manager, vBulletin" After that last response, WHB did not reply to the ticket. There were still major load on the servers and i was already looking for a new host. I was then suprised to see a comment from a support staff. "Small server overload has been in process all day long due to server security maintenance." Suprise Suprise! Later i had posted on the vbulletin forums and this was the response i had got from vb staff: "Steve Machol: If you are still being hacked after doing all of this, then they are most likely doing this by accessing your server. You need to contact your host about this. Me: Hi Steve, Mike and I also came to the same conclusion. If you look at ticket number (Ticketid: 824317). You will see what Mike has to say and that there is sufficient evidence to say that it was the server that was compromised afterall. A vbulletin. 3.7.2 (latest version was defaced), 3.7.1 and also a 3.6.8 I am in the process of changing hosts, however my current host fails to understand what i am trying to say to them and they are persistent that it is vbulletin's fault. This is what they had to say. WHB: Dear ......., I totally comprehend you but it is a matter only of your vbulletin's security which is not being guaranteed and provided by you i.e. it is not updated at all. Please be so kind to contact vbulletin's developers/support and install the LATEST version and ALL patches and updates! Keeping all these rules will make your forums safe for sure! If you have any further questions just let us know. We'll be happy to help. Me: How can i make them understand that 3 different domains on the server were defaced which were not linked with one another and that 2 out of the 3 were fully updated versions of vbulletin? Mike had also showed me the process of where the hackers traced the forum boards with msn search targeting the particular server which the hackers know well there was a way in. I really would appreciate a reply which i can pose to my current host including any technical terms which they may understand. Thanks Steve Machol: Unfortunately you cannot make a host like that understand. If they are not even willing to investigate a possible security breach on their servers, then the only viable option is to get away from them as fast as you can." Another response for the above from Steve: Mike Sullivan Aug 01st '08 11:29am "Hi, I suppose you can use my name and try to explain what I showed. I'm just a bit wary that it looks like a vB staff member just saying it's not our fault. I'm really not trying to do that. As for your host, I doubt you'll be able to convince them of much. Especially if it's from things I say. It's "he said, she said" really. In a weird sense, I wish I could find a whole in vB (or some other software) when I do these searches. It would actually provide some closue to the issue! I don't really know what I can say technically, unfortunately. Looking at the logs, I could see when the pages started returning a particular page size; that indicated when it got hacked. I saw no accesses in your logs between the last good access and the first bad access that had anything weird about them (they were just /forums/). The search enginer referrer is probably the clearest thing. Did my explanation of that make sense? While I know that there is no such thing as guaranteed safety, your host's response just says "upgrade to the latest version and you'll be fine"... But as you said, you're already on the latest version. 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Liquid Web Review ....
I got one server with them for about half a year now (360 dollars a month). I'm very please with their service including the network, and support. They are 100% fully managed. I have never had a downtime. E-mails are always responded very quickly and fast. I sent in atleast 30 e-mails so far. Real humans, not some crappy automated response I get from a lot of services out there. The hardware is nice, I'm able to support like 20k visitors per day and about 30-100gb of bandwidth per day fine on one machine. Large forums, 2million + posts, and large sites that do a lot of bandwidth I guess. Also I have had some billing problems aka, money problems, my own fault and they usually seem to understand and give me a slight break (last couple of months) I'm happy with their service and hope to continue to work with them.
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