I had what I thought was a near-miss with a hacker yesterday but instead turned out to be a biff-up on my host’s part. Still… all roads lead to a freak out and a lot of time trying to solve the problem with two ornery kids to boot.
If you don’t know what I am referring to… let me tell the story:
Yesterday afternoon I logged onto my site and instead of the cute pink and green hues with a smiling girl on her laptop for my header, I saw some lewd and crude adult-themed parked domain page complete with smiling half-naked women. They tagged my site for online schooling and naughty wives. Not sure what part of my page made them think of sex but I was just a bit put off by it. What… the splash page with cute smiling puppy dogs was unavailable?
So, thinking that I had been hacked into… (cuz what else could it have been… right?) I chatted up with my host. I was referred to their security department. The security department took FOREVER to get back to me. Of course at that point, 1 minute seemed like forever so maybe it was a couple of hours tops. Anyway, the security department told me that I had forgotten to renew my domain.
Uh… say what? You mean the same domain that I had renewed last month even though my payment wasn’t due until August 1? Yep. The very same. I was more than a little annoyed. I mean… come on now… I pay my bills on time… this shouldn’t have happened. Once again I chatted up a live tech rep and told them my story. They fixed the oopsy but with no apology for having freaked me out. Oh well… such is life. Human error…right?
The good thing is, I got my precious site back and that is the most important thing!
Still… what a day! When it was all over I wanted to roll under the covers with a pint of Chubby Hubby ice cream and lose myself in a sugar coma. I settled for going to the park with husb and the kiddos instead.
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