Internet Business Daily

It is almost inevitable that a website will be hacked. Someone always thinks they control the Internet and police sites they don’t like. Even the company I work for, an enormous website with lots of protection, got hacked for pissing someone else off.

There is nothing a webmaster can do about this except try to protect the site. If you are really savvy you may even retaliate. Unfortunately I fell victim (along with all the sites on the server I am on) to a hack. My server admin informed me that someone had hacked his server. This hacker flooded the server with requests for the same data over and over again. Honestly, I shouldn’t even be talking about this for two reasons. First, the hacker might read this and get pleasure that they were mentioned. Second, the hacker might read this and hack us again. Regardless, the first hack did absolutely nothing to the server or my site. I believe the site went down for all of 10 seconds while the admin checked a few settings but other than that there was nothing more than a hiccup.

Again getting hacked is pretty hard to avoid. Just the other day reddit.com was hacked and the user names and passwords of tons of people were stolen. Now you might say who cares if someone has my reddit info, but if you are like many people you have one user name and password for every one of your hundred different websites you sign in to. This was a major blow to reddit.

One thing I did not mention is why I was hacked. In all honesty, I really don’t know. It could be because a jealous digger saw my site get to the front page and decided I should pay. Whatever the reason I survived to see another day. So for all webmasters out there when you get hacked, just hope for the best and don’t get too angry/upset.