JoeWoodworker Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I woke up this morning and got an email from my hosting company indicating that they had shut down my live Oscommerce store because it supposedly has a security flaw. Since I just quit my day job to work full time on our mail order business, this is a major catastrophy. I'm using a pre-milestone version of OSC (I think its CVS2.1) with about 500 products in the database and 3000 customers. Several questions... Any answers would be tremendously (TREMENDOUSLY) appreciated. 1) Is there a security flaw in the pre-milestone release? 2) Is there any way to easily port over my database to a newer version of OSC? 3) I realize the the forum rules do not allow posting of business recommendations but I would gladly accept email recommendations for a new hosting company. Thanks a million! Joe Evil will always triumph over good... Because good is dumb. - D.H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalseDawn Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Did they mention what the flaw was? Shutting down a site without pre-warning and trying to resolve the issues first is totally unacceptable. Maybe they are a sh*tty cowboy company and you were taking too much bandwidth or something? If your store is past a certain size, you need virtual or dedicated hosting - a lot of shared hosting companies just don't cut it. Having said that, I'm currently with lunarpages on a shared host plan - they have a great support forum and their customer support is pretty good. Don't hear much bad about them, although the site does slow down during heavy traffic periods... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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