Posted by Kevin Fields on July 13, 2008, 3:03 pm
First of all, I apologize for the downtime issues with the website. I am currently stuck in Indiana for the time being taking care of family issues. I was finally able to get Internet service installed and running yesterday, so I'm trying to get everything back up to speed. I became aware of the issue with the server last week and have been working to get things going again as quick as possible.
Second, the reason for the problems with the webserver is because a hacker got in and started using it for his or her own nefarious purposes, and was able to disable all the security of our provider. It was a pretty sophisticated hack too. After our provider discovered it, they alerted the FBI, who decided that they wanted to look at the server, so that's why it's been offline for a whole week.
This afternoon I have started to move sites over to the new server, so things should be restored shortly. The main web site will be working, the photo gallery may be offline for sometime, I'm not sure of the extent of the damage to any files. We'll get it back up and working again.
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