My other car is a Subaru Forester XT, and the place to go for information and so on about FXTs is (was) SubaruForester.com. I say "was" though, because the service that was hosting their site forgot to renew its domain name, so it was promptly grabbed up by one of those slimy domain grabbers. Consequently, the SF.com site went away.

Now, the SF.com owner/admin crew (purely victims in this episode) promptly registered SubaruForester.org and worked their tails off to replicate the site with the new domain name. So all's well that ends well, as someone famous said.

Except, in this case, the archive of all the previous threads is gone. They may (or may not) be able to get it back. And this is a shame, because that archive represents a valuable knowledge base.

So....well, the title of this thread is supposed to tie this together. I'd hate to see the knowledge base represented here at S2Ki.com evaporate. (Of course, some people -- xviper comes to mind, and I'm there, too -- would probably rejoice at the evaporation of all the bad information here. But we'd all be the poorer for the loss of the good stuff.) HPH

 

I'm not sure I understand your question. I'm happy to answer it but I'm not sure what you are asking so I'm not sure what information I could provide to answer it.

 

Well, sorry, I wasn't really asking anything specific. But if you all are having your site hosted by a third-party hosting service, you're vulnerable to the same thing that happened to SF.com. And, believe me, you don't want that to happen.

For a few days there, all of us Foresterites would go to our familiar site and get redirected to a spam server, the slimeballs who grabbed the expired hosting domain. There was severe withdrawal for a while.

And, as I said, the knowledge base was lost, maybe forever. So I'm just hoping to provide a little reminder of an obscure vulnerability.

On the other hand, if S2Ki is on someone's own computer in a garage or something, well, that's probably not going to have this happen to it. (Of course, mice could chew through the wiring...) HPH

 

Ok. s2ki doesn't operate like that. It's run by a professional staff (me) with 20 years of computer industry experience. We own our equipment and do our own hosting. Sometimes the odd person will ask why we have advertising and memberships and say why do you need that, I could run the site for $10 a month. You answered that question before you even asked it

You don't need a spare until you've had a flat. You don't need an alarm until you've been ripped off. You don't need a fire extinguisher under after the fire department puts out your inferno. We own and control all of our stuff, software, hardware and data and I care for it like the valuable asset that it is. I've staked my livelihood on it and I spend my entire work day and then some doing little but keeping it safe, secure and running for you guys to enjoy and benefit from. I've got 20 years of computer industry and network experience I put to use everyday so hopefully the community doesn't need to worry about it all going down the toilet one day.

Relax and enjoy. The collective assets of the community are not at significant risk and the threat condition is green.

 

But I do have ants, they are really annoying and I'm out of Raid. I hate ants

 

Bait -- you need bait. Get those little Raid ant picnic boxes (down here, they come with two flavors of bait in one box.) It's what we use here in the subtropics, and it works wonders (although you don't get the instant gratification of ants dying in agony before your eyes). HPH

 

Well, at some point you are paying someone to register your domain. This could be vunerable if the company you have registered with is a third-party registrar. So if www.s2ki.com were to get cyber-jacked the archive would be completely safe, and S2ki would be back as soon as you managed to get the domain name back, and the DNS resolved correctly.

Not a bad heads-up type warning though.

The best case of cyber-squatting ever? PETA.Org

Anyone looking for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals would reach People for the Eating of Tastey Animals. Other than that ONE instance, all other Cyber-jackers should be killed with the ers

 

well as long as this site's name was registered through a quality registrar, they would hold the name for up to 30 days for the original regsitree to renew it before they would allow someone else to come in and take it....

SO

as cthree seems to know his sh1t I'm sure there is nothing to worry about.



got raid 5?

 

That is SOOOOOOO 2003. Now it's all about RAID 1+0

 

Don't talk about us like that