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How Not To Run a Campaign Website
Soong writes "The blogsphere has been going crazy today about the technical difficulties being experienced by the Joe Lieberman for CT Senator web site, joe2006.com. MyDD outlines the story so far and has continuing updates. A reader at DailyKos digs deeper and finds some shamefully exposed ports. A front page story there has the money quote: 'Joe's site shares one server with 73 other sites. They pay $15/month for an overcrowded server, and then they blame others when it goes down?' kos also mentions that 'My hosting bill is now over $7K per month.' While this has immediate consequences for Joe Lieberman's campaign since his site went down Sunday night/Monday morning and the election is today, it makes me curious to see an expose on what exactly we're getting from various vendors when we buy into sub $100/month hosting plans."
The "shamefully exposed ports" sounds a lot like portsentry, an IDS-type app that listens on ports even if no service is running.
As for cheap hosting plans - we host clients anywhere from $12.75/month to 100 times that - some sites need a lot of capacity, most don't. But, virtually across the board, many people have no idea how much bandwidth they really need until it's too late.
Any reasonable hosting company should have noticed the domain name and made arrangements for such a high profile site. Of course, this assumes that the engineers at the hosting provider were neutral...
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I you use enough bandwidth, you will get a $7K bill. What the author was saying is that he has a $7K monthly bill every month and expects it.
If you think you can cheap out and push terabytes for nothing, you will quickly find out that free lunches are hard to find anymore.
Now exactly how youtube.com stays in business, I don't get.
Interestingly, when the Lieberman web site went down and the initial unfounded accusations started flying, his opponent, Ned Lamont, added a prominent link to Google's cached version of Lieberman's site as a public service to the voters of Connecticut.
"make no mistake he's a liberal" ooo all wrong.
"George Bush's favourite Democrat" The kissing video from the floor of congress, I don't know of any other Senator that has been favoured in that manner. Lieberman's opposition to the democrtic parties attempt's to stop Bush's nominees to the Supreme court, not his words - his votes, which actually matter.
His directive to Democrats to stop criticizing the president "cause we're at war."
Geez and sheesh if maybe we had all been encouraged to look closely and criticize excuses for war we wouldn't be ass deep in this morally repugnant slaughter for no reason at all.
No Reason At All. no WMD no Al Qeda no Bin Laden, oh and now the world no longer trusts us, most specifically the ones we should be trying to win over.
Make no mistake, nothing Liberal about him.
Alright, so now we have an admin who blames all his problems on being hacked, and the story is posted on /. I wonder how many script kiddies are running their proggies against the site right now. I give it another hour or two before that page gets replaced with "I pwzn j00!" or some other unintelligible leet speek.
Once upon a time, I got my own website. After months of searching and trying a bunch of discount hosts that gave me less than I paid for, I came across phpwebhosting.com and all was good. While only $10 a month, it provide me with great reliable hosting and even better tech support. That was in 1998. By 2003 I had moved all of my client's sites to phpwebhosting.com and everything was still good. Of course there were now cheaper discount hosts (some for as low as $4 a month!), but I stayed with phpwebhosting.com b/c of the great past and present service.
Then 2004 arrived. AOL and other ISPs started blocking email sent from phpwebhosting.com servers. I managed to work around the problem, but I had no idea what had happened in the background. Then one day, I noticed that instead of one of my domains going to phpwebhosting.com's server, it was going to theplanet.com's. After more research it appeared that theplanet.com had taken over phpwebhosting.com, or at the very least phpwebhosting.com was just reselling theplanet.com's stuff.
At the end of 2004 things started to turn bad. One client's site was down for 5-6 hours a day for an entire week. No warning, no appology, and no responce to the trouble ticket. Then all of the clients started to be blocked again by AOL. Then worse my personal account could not recieve email. Since all of this started just before X-mas, I gave them a week to reply to the trouble ticket (in the past it was normally only 24hr or less). Then I raised the level of the ticket and asked for an update. Since New Years was just around the corner, I gave them another week to do something. Nothing happened. At this point, I started to get phone calls from people asking why my email was bouncing. The ticket was already at the emergency level, so I again asked for an update. Still nothing by the end of the first week in Jan.
I began the really annoying task of seeking out a new webhost. Meanwhile the clock was ticking on the trouble ticket. The 2nd week in Jan was gone and I had found the place I would move some of my clients (other's I decided to set up on their own servers). The end of Jan, I finally moved the last of my domains from phpwebhosting.com (which I think is now controlled by theplanet.com). Over a month had gone by and there was still no answer to the trouble ticket.
I can only say that for many years phpwebhosting.com was great and that only after theplanet.com somehow became involved with them did the server go down hill. It must be theplanet.com's fault. Had the Friends of Joe Lieberman knew about this, I'm sure they would have chosen a better discount webhost.
Noone who consistantly votes yes to bills that are blantantly against the first ammendment can be considered a liberal.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Why in the WORLD would the host provider (myhostcamp.com) disclose ANY CLIENT INFO to a third party?!? This includes what type of account the customer has.