Inexistence.org

Drive replacement completed, RAID1 rebuilt, all services are back up and running.

Server will be going down at some point as 1&1 replaces a drive for us. We apologize for the downtime and hopefully it will be short. Thank you for your understanding.

Server is currently down due to a hard drive failure. We are currently correcting the issue.

Debian 8.0 is officially installed as of now. Lots of changes to come as it adds a bunch of new features!

We will be rolling to the new Debian 8.0 release shortly (on les) please excuse any issues that crop up as we work.

Distro Upgrade complete, all main services are up and running. We will be doing more work later on as well. More info will be posted as we go. Main admin is tired and wants to go to bed now. Wish him pleasant dreams!

We are currently doing a distro upgrade, please excuse the dust while it is underway. If your site goes down or one of our services stops working trust that we are working on it and operations will resume as soon as possible.

We are currently in the process of doing a huge data migration to our new server.

To all our users:
Expect a phone call or email in the coming days/weeks from us as we need to discuss the migration and what to expect in the future.

(It is looking bright!)

Power Outage followed by backbone outage today. Services have been restored... We will be taking steps to ensure this doesn't happen again as soon as we can. Over the coming month we will be transitioning to a co-location type service providing more internet connection backbones and power recovery options (generators / battery backups).

In case anyone has read this report and might be concerned, we did an internal audit on the possible files and they are clean.

Linux/Cdorked.A malware: Lighttpd and nginx web servers also affected - We Live Security Our investigation around Linux/Cdorked.A continues. Since our initial post about this sophisticated and stealthy backdoor designed to drive traffic to malicious websites, we have made further significant discoveries:

The postmortem explaining service disruptions has been posted by CloudFlare. This took down pretty much all of our hosted sites, thankfully they had their services back up in less than an hour.

Today's Outage Post Mortem - CloudFlare blog Welcome to the CloudFlare blog. CloudFlare provides performance and security for any website. Hundreds of thousands of websites use CloudFlare. To learn more, please visit our website.

Just a note to all hosted WordPress site owners you are safe from this as we know how to configure things properly. Directory indexes are not allowed and dbcaches are done with APC (not disk mode which is exploitable). Any sites we help manage this will also not apply to as dbcache is disabled on most third party servers due to bugs with their hosting.

Popular Wordpress Plugin Leaves Sensitive Data In the Open - Slashdot chicksdaddy writes in with a warning about a popular Wordpress plugin. "A security researcher is warning WordPress users that a popular plugin may leave sensitive information from their blog accessible from the public Internet with little more than a Google search. The researcher, Jason A. Donenfeld...