Index page is fine. Continue about your business.

SEO is like driving a bobsled. You aim it down hill, and then you don't have to do much else except avoid crashing, and it just builds up speed by itself.

(The wu wei of SEO. Work with the Tao and not against it, including online.)

Fine by me. Like I said, if we actually made direct money off of this, I'd probably be more concerned. I say direct since I've made much indirect money off of this site. Woo.

I suppose I should peek at Analytics at some point. It's probably mostly bots trying to get in.

Jan 18, if you are having problems, this is probably why
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/01/ ... -outage-4/

Ah so that explains why my personal email account's mail server has been down today. Thanks Coach, I've been just too busy to look into it.

Cheap motel!

I think they had a networking failure. So this might not be the classic cheap motel subdivision problem.

In more modern cloud systems like Amazon EC2 or the Rackspace cloud, you're sold a service based on objective standards for how powerful your resources are. Amazon has their "ECU". You know in the beginning that you share physical hardware with lots of other people, but you're guaranteed your minimum square footage and they can't subdivide your unit into smaller pieces. You know that your service won't degrade over time. Not so with traditional shared-server hosts like Dreamhost. A Dreamhost account gets less and less powerful with each passing year because they pack customers into their servers like sardines.

The server driving TNL seems to work at least.

Are you sure you haven't been hacked today? Avast keeps giving me a threat warning.

It seems to be indicating this URL http://ifraneDOTdns2DOTus/t/595fbe41083 ... 7d3977052e

Periods removed to protect the guilty.

Argh again? I notice that the avatars are broken now. This site is such a pain in the ass to operate because of Dreamhost. I don't have time to deal with it right now but I'll take a look when I can.

Okay I really don't have time for this but I don't want some kind of malicious code running around on the watercooler where everybody hangs out. You guys trust me to slap that crap away so I took the time. We were hacked through the shared server TWICE in two days. It's obviously coming in through somebody compromising the server because it's file modifications, not DB hacks. Dreamhost sucks. If you run on Dreamhost then you have to be really sure to run your code from an SCM system so that you'll be able to tell which files go hacked when somebody breaks in through the server and screws with your site.

I also found a file that somebody planted, a third thing apart from those two hacks, called "che.php", which is an email gateway script that allows somebody to send spam messages through Dreamhost's server. Somebody stuck it in the Talk Nightlife account so that they could spam people for Viagra pills or send them Nigerian scam emails or whatever.

SO amazingly frustrating. I wish that we could move this thing to Orchestra so that this wouldn't be a problem.

When I woke up this morning there were two new hacks. The che.php email gateway was back and there was a new JavaScript hack that I've never seen before. This site is starting to be too much trouble to operate because of Dreamhost's security problems.