Well as Dave pointed out a short while back, my server was down again – this time for quite a time. Turns out it looks like it got hacked by some spammer, or at least that is my guess based on the what data was left behind after they pooched it.
Since I’ve been running on e-smith, I’ve been hit twice now. Luckily neither time I lost any data that mattered to me but it got me thinking. I decided to ditch e-smith and with the help of d-smith (hehe) I managed to install a different linux distribution and install all the necessary packages to get haggaret.com back in business. My thinking was that e-smith was preconfigured with well known default settings which may or may not have made it easier to hack. Perhaps I’m way off in my assumption but oh well. As a bonus, I’ve been able to get new themes to work on this linux distro that didn’t seem to work with e-smith. Next step – avatars! :)
Anyways, it feels like forever since I’ve posted so I may do some ‘back-posting’ to catch up on things I’ve missed out on posting about. Good to be back.
P.S. Still experimenting with new themes until I find one that I like.