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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 20809 Location: sunny wales
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 10:11 am Post subject: I need an experienced website wrangler |
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I've had a string of attacks on my website where as best I can tell, they use random wossname generators to get past the passwords, then send pointless spam email from inside the system.
My web host helpdesk are pretty good and have helped me unpick it each time its happened, but no matter how carefully I follow their list of instructions to make sure the password is impossible for me to remember let alone anyone else, and to make sure things like wp are updated regularly, that my home computer is clear of spy stuff and things like that, it seems to happen every few weeks at the moment, and they've just sent me a message saying if it happens again they'll assume its me being negligent and will suspend the site.
I don't know what else to do to tighten it all up further, and because I have virtually no coding ability I can't spot problem areas within the guts of the system, and I need someone who knows what they are looking at to give the site a good going over looking for malicious loopholes or dodgy permissions or whatever else might be making it easy for them to get in and tighten everything up as far as humanly possible, maybe remove completely anything that isn't necessary to the functionality of the site.
I can pay, I have no idea how big a job it will be, but I'm guessing its something like an evenings work to do a proper check, tighten anything obvious, then give me a to-do list of anything I need to watch out for or do from there. The main site is run on WP, the shop is oscommerce and really could do with replacing with something more modern, but until I have time to research a new option, I'm stuck with that.
Is anyone able to bail me out here? I've got nasty cold hard cash available. |
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
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vegplot
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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jema wrote: |
This needs to be done from a shell session, does your provider allow you login access to a command line? |
err, I don't quite know what that means, but I expect Vegplot will and I'll see if I can find out. The current plan if I've understood it correctly is to move the good bits of the site out for a while so we can scrap everything else (there are bits of files in there left over from the old Geocities days I suspect, I've always been to afraid to delete old versions in case I scrap something important ) then put the usable bits back in a tidy way.
I do need to find a new shop option, the oscommerce one has been aging rapidly for ages now, I've tried to look up reviews of different options but they all assume one speaks a certain techie language and I get utterly boggled by the bits about installation requirements before I get to the parts about whether I can get it to do the things I need, like postage based on weight and region rather than the flat rate only that a lot of the online shop options seem to stick with.
I know its pathetic that I can't manage all this tidily in this day and age, everyone else on the planet seems to be able to converse about php and coding stuff without needing to lie down in a darkened room with a nice flint axe for comfort, but I'm failing badly at keeping up here |
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 34535 Location: Hereford
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
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earthyvirgo
Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 7972 Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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sally_in_wales wrote: |
jema wrote: |
This needs to be done from a shell session, does your provider allow you login access to a command line? |
err, I don't quite know what that means, but I expect Vegplot will and I'll see if I can find out. The current plan if I've understood it correctly is to move the good bits of the site out for a while so we can scrap everything else (there are bits of files in there left over from the old Geocities days I suspect, I've always been to afraid to delete old versions in case I scrap something important ) then put the usable bits back in a tidy way.
I do need to find a new shop option, the oscommerce one has been aging rapidly for ages now, I've tried to look up reviews of different options but they all assume one speaks a certain techie language and I get utterly boggled by the bits about installation requirements before I get to the parts about whether I can get it to do the things I need, like postage based on weight and region rather than the flat rate only that a lot of the online shop options seem to stick with.
I know its pathetic that I can't manage all this tidily in this day and age, everyone else on the planet seems to be able to converse about php and coding stuff without needing to lie down in a darkened room with a nice flint axe for comfort, but I'm failing badly at keeping up here |
It's not pathetic at all Sally. I'm an ex-web designer, I've started describing my own website as 'vintage' and 'retro', it's so in need of an overhaul.
People still buy from it tho', so it's functional, if not a thing of great beauty.
EV |
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