hussam

Thank you.

And what happens if someone's script attempts to create a new InnoDB database?

Same sentiments here. There was no official statement by an administrator after the last outage even though it lasted half a day.

A "we are still trying to work on it but it needs so and so" will do. Any sort of feedback from an administrator with direct access to the server is very appreciated because it puts our minds at ease.

Thank you very much.

If I understand correctly (and I may be mistaken), it happens because there are some corrupted databases since february and every time some script tries to access them, mysql server goes down. So it is random. Theoretically (again, my own opinion), the chance for this should decrease with time as old users leave and new users come.

It seems mysqld is running on stevie but rejecting most connections. In particular, ones that are close to each other such as when you open two links in wordpress in less than 10 or so seconds are being dropped. That seems to be very restrictive. I hope it is a mistake.

Hi, how is the state of mysqld uptime on Stevie right now? Any better?

Perhaps put it on dropbox instead if it is just a file you are hosting.

Where did you get your wordpress installation from?

The file /wp-admin/config.php does not exist in a wordpress installation.

- /wp-config.php is the configuration file

- /wp-admin/ is supposed to be read only and should not contain a wp-config.php or config.php (wordpress does not use config.php anyway)

- plugin and theme data or any extra functionality goes to /wp-content/

- /wp-includes/ contains all php files needed by wordpress and should also be read-only.

- No extra files should be placed in /wp-admin/ or /wp-includes/

My guess is /home1/sahdes/public_html/wp-admin/config.php is some file hiding there for malicious purposes.

Either someone logged onto your account and placed that file there, or you got your wordpress zip file from a bad source.

Delete /wp-admin/ and upload it again from http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

This will NOT affect the content of your website. This folder should be strictly read only anyway.

Congrats

Contact your registrar. You never completed all the contact-information verification steps. That means you need to verify your email address and possibly a phone number with your registrar. They are now required by ICANN to keep all contact information up to date.

Aaah Hussam you ARE an Admin, a Gentleman and a Saint!

No, not an admin. I wouldn't want to anyway

My definition of free will is the ability to make a random choice between two or more *open and freely allowable* options.

That means if I hold a gun to your head and force you to choose option A, it does *not* mean you don't have free will in that situation. Even though you exercised option A, I cannot tell if you really wanted option B.

Free will is a simulation of randomness.

I agree with Hussam. We all have free will. Totally. What can be confusing is the fact that you and I exist due to millions of freely chosen actions performed millions of free will individuals many generations prior to you

Not just that, the choices you make are the result of a system that simulated free will since the beginning of man kind.

It means when I give you two apples and you chose which one to eat first, you think you made a free choice. But in reality, that system led you to make that decision. You simply can't tell how it did so.

It is a complex mathematical process that was initially fed a "non free will" decision at the beginning of mankind (probably an innate reaction to something) and has since been producing "free will".

Off topic.

On http://www.azseniorservices.com/faq.html

It think it should say

and my company's purpose

instead of

and my companies purpose

And you might want to change "© Untitled" at the bottom of the page to "© your company name".

Fair enough

Wordpress still only requires 5.2 as well but will eventually need 5.3.xx somewhere in the 4.x line. Hopefully it won't be higher than 5.3.8

That still doesn't answer the question

5.3.8 to any 5.3.xx update should be straight forward and very safe unless it is some technical issue with installing updates as in distribution package management, etc...

I would recommend using .eu.org

All their domain registrations are manually approved and they are life time. No need to renew every year.

What kind of script were you running on your .tk domain?

Don't use random scripts you find on the internet. Some may be bad scripts.

Upgrading php has been discussed a few times.

I still would like to ask though. Is there any risk that prevents upgrading from 5.3.8 to the latest 5.3.xx release?

Or is it a technical issue as in package management?

maybe you can use htaccess to direct http://mywebsite.com/folder to

http://mygame.mywebsite.com:6654

then use cloudflare to point mygame.mywebsite.com to 111.11.111.11?

I'm not sure if that even works because this only works through http in browsers but it is the only thing I can think of.

That depends on how they hacked you.

You seem to be running the WP 3.9.1 which is the latest.

You are also running jetpack. Make sure you are running the latest version.

Secure your wp-config.php (read only by everyone even owner). I can't stress this one enough. I know of one free host (not heliohost) who had over 1000 users' wp sites hacked because of unprotected wp-config.php

Don't use random plugins. Only use well maintained ones. The less plugins, the better.

Same goes for your theme.

zooter80, just set it writable by owner, do your editing then set it back to read-only.

it's easy to deface a wordpress website if you use an older version but you appear to be using 3.9.1 which is the latest version.

You need to change the permissions of wp-config.php to read only even by owner otherwise you really are putting yourself at great danger. That means 'chmod 444 wp-config.php'. the permissions should look like this "-r--r--r-- wp-config.php".

Wordpress has hooks all over the places and so too many people write plugins and not all of them are safe. Try to not use any plugins unless they are very well maintained and written by people who know what they are doing.

Do read this too http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

I voted php since it is what I know best.

You are running SMF 2.0.4

2.0.7 is the latest security/bugfix release.

Try updating if possible

I also strongly suggest cloudflare.

We have free will. But it is a simulation and a very complex one.

Think of it as a random number generator where the random seed used to initialize the random number generator was used millions of years ago and the same random number generator process is still running.

It is way too complex, near untraceable and has the ability to produce virtually unpredictable results.

By virtually unpredictable results, I mean results that the human brain doesn't have the computing power to retrace every operation this process did in order to calculate the next result. This ability to produce unpredictable results is what simulates free will.

So yes, I believe we have as much free will as physically possible.

Stevie accounts stay around 24 hours in queue. Johnny accounts can take longer.

Stevie also has higher uptime records.