I am not sure if people know this (and yes, I shall get round to putting up a banner) but the guys at EdgeWebHosting have been hosting my site on a dedicated server that allows me to both maintain this blog as well as a bunch of small projects that I have for quite a while now. I have always got on with Vlad at all the conferences and the choice seemed good.
So far the service has been stellar, no downtime etc. But normally, that is what you expect right? A true test really comes when things go wrong.
And on Tuesday apparently they did.
I woke up to find that I had a missing call from the USA. A bit confusing, but when I heard the voicemail, it was Dave, one of the support engineers at Edge Web Hosting that had spotted suspicious activity on my site. I wont go into all the details here of the exploit (lets say that it looked a lot worse than it ended up being and nothing was actually compromised) , but throughout Tuesday, they were the most on the ball company I have ever hosted with in keeping me up to date.
(before you ask, it was a mis configuration I did to apache, for a quick job that I should have removed and was exploited. Let's leave it at that)
I can't recommend them enough, and even through emails updating me on the findings of the supposed intrusion including IM'ing for information etc.
When was the last time YOU had service like that eh?
So all in all big thanks to the guys at Edge Web Hosting!
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