12Apr

New MySQL Hosting Platform – v5.5.30

April 12, 2013

This evening, Mr.Host migrated all of it’s MySQL hosting services, to a brand new MySQL database hosting platform, as well as upgraded the MySQL version to 5.5.30.

The new hosting platform is a significant upgrade from the old system, with much more memory, processing power, and much much faster hard drives.

All customer databases were moved to this new platform automatically; no changes were required to your sites or your site content to make this switch. Customers should immediately notice an improvement in their website performance and response time.

If you have any questions or comments about this upgrade, please don’t hesitate to Contact Us.

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11Apr

DDOS Attacks Against WordPress Installations

April 11, 2013

For about 2 hours today, we experienced a DDOS attack against the estimated four thousand WordPress installations hosted on our web hosting platform. During this time customer WordPress installs were still accessible, but were degraded in performance.

It looks like the attacker was trying to (unsuccessfully) brute force the wp-login.php page, in an attempt to gain access to the WordPress admin interfaces.

We’ve managed to squash about 90% of the junk traffic, returning service levels back to normal. The remainder of the traffic should die out over the next few hours.

Customers are encouraged to re-evaluate their WordPress admin interface passwords, and to ensure that their WordPress installations, and any installed plugins, are fully up-to-date.

UPDATE:

TechCrunch posted an article about this with some more details:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/12/hackers-point-large-botnet-at-wordpress-sites-to-steal-admin-passwords-and-gain-server-access/

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