On 27 Jun 2009, at 17:52, Matthew Daubney <m...@daubers.co.uk> wrote:
> <snip> >>> >> Hi Matt, oh dear, he comes some more of my ignorance, what is a >> VPS. My >> host is called EUKHost, and I have a shared server. I cant get them >> to >> open up about this, but some of the things that I have on there >> such as >> the MODX CMS and Wordpress conflict with mod_security, and it has >> to be >> tirned off. They wont fix it because it will affect the other sites >> if >> it does. Will that have been what could have caused this? My >> domains are >> hamstercareforum.co.uk and furrycritters.co.uk. How can you find out >> about the security of them. I used to belong to a rescue, dont do >> much >> now, but the info is about the animals I used to look after, and it >> has >> a forum on there as well. I do have a few animals here. >> >> I just took a look and the sites still arent showing. >> >> John >> > > Hiya, > > A VPS is a Virtual Private Server. Essentially its a virtual machine > on > someone elses server. By the looks of it, yours is just a single > server > sharing some resources. Based on the fact that it doesn't appear to > have > a firewall installed, I'd immediatley be a bit suspicious. phpBB and > Wordpress can sometimes be broken into, but if you're on shared > storage, > then I'd ask if it was just your stuff that was taken down. I'm not > sure > how to look up the ip address to see what else was on there, but it > may > be that someone elses dodgy install of something gave access. > > There are a million and one things that could be the cause here, but > chances are, it wasn't something you can control. > > -Matt Daubney It's called reverse IP lookup - I'm not at home at the moment but will be in a few minutes, so if you haven't found a site via Google I'll post back. Sometimes quite interesting to find out the other websites lol James -- James Milligan lak...@lake54.com www.lake54.com www.killermentality.com www.twitter.com/lake54 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
