Expect Plesk Outtages While we Update!

Hi Everyone!

I recently blogged about enhanced security here at WA for websites running WordPress.. We've drastically improved the security as I mentioned here.

Today we are running some more updates to further take precautions and enhance security of plesk control panels. While we run these updates please expect that you will not be able to log into plesk.

How does this affect you?

At WA hosting, Plesk is really only used for management of email addresses (adding and deleting them). In the very near future we will not have any use for plesk as we are building in a user-friendly email management system. Full access to your domain's file system is done via FTP, subdomain setup is done via the WA website interface, and this really only leaves email account creation to plesk.

We will be doing maintenance on plesk all at once so no one wil be able to access plesk while this happens.

What can we expect in the coming days at WA hosting?

Fingers crossed, we're going to be 100% spam and malware free at WA which means we can all get back to business of continuing to evolve as the most educated Internet marketing community online!

The past week has seen millions of sites hacked with malicious code across thousands of web hosts. This malicious code is the same code that redirects users to random websites that some WA members have experienced. This has been well documented by server administrators and security advisors from many of the top web hosts online as being a problem.

We know what the issue is, we know how to fix it, and updating plesk is part of this security fix. We're working tirelessly to patch up any sites that have been affected, and we hope that in the next day or so everything wil be back to normal.

I'll extend my apologies in advance for disabling plesk access - what has to be done, has to be done!

Thank you to every single WA member who has had a site hacked for your patience.

Carson