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09/23/2008 7:52 AM
I know nothing is 100% but we seriously need better security here at maxminis. The site going down every few weeks (or worse, every couple days) due to some scumbag is intolerable. Meanwhile, our sister station keeps humming along without all these problems.

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09/23/2008 1:12 PM
we have a sister site? what is it?

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Underboss

1899 Posts

09/23/2008 2:15 PM
Host has been working to improve the security situation, including installing software that should prevent the type of attacks that have been causing problems here lately. Since the recent site stability issues have been related to those attacks, hopefully that means that the site will be much more stable from now on.

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09/23/2008 5:03 PM
Posted By Ghendar on 09/23/2008 7:52 AM I know nothing is 100% but we seriously need better security here at maxminis. The site going down every few weeks (or worse, every couple days) due to some scumbag is intolerable. Meanwhile, our sister station keeps humming along without all these problems. Maxminis might get more hate. Its also more common software in use, which equals more exploits known and used.

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09/23/2008 11:29 PM
With the exception of one server crash from an exploit that might have targeted Maxminis specifically and happened quite a while back, it's almost certainly the latter (although I'd phrase it as software that's "more commonly flawed" rather than "more common in use").

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