Hosting Hacked; The Whole Story

Welp, that was the last nail in my web server's coffin. Let me tell you the whole story now that we're mostly returning visitors once again here.

Sometime between April 27 and 28, some kind of internet person seems to have placed an apk file on my hosting and proceeded to send thousands of people from Australia text messages to their phones about alleged pending speeding tickets, linking them though bit.ly to the apk file installed in my host.
Fortunately, one of those people affected contacted me to notify me of these events. Unfortunately, this happened at 4:00 a.m. local time, so the whole thing stayed up for several hours while I obliviously tossed around in bed.

I deleted the file and changed all passwords. I also contacted customer support, whose help was limited to offering me a 25% discount on an optional security package which, by the looks of it, basically amounts to doing what I was doing before contacting them. No other archives seem to have ever been modified on the server, but since I cannot fully guarantee that another security breach will not happen again, I've removed the hosting's download links for the game.


Neither the DropBox account nor the Blogger one were affected and their content is not hosted in that server, so everything that you see here is safe.


Now, as I said, I'm going to go ahead and let go of the dedicated server and domain. It already proved to be a lousy hosting, sometimes cutting downloads in half and causing other problems. In fact, the whole thing was actually a rather unnecessary expense that dates back from when I thought that the game would be able to sustain a forum and a community.

It might be worth considering again in the future under a different name more inclusive for hypothetical future projects, but for now I think I'm better off saving myself the money and trouble.


Therefore, we're shortly going to go back to free file hosting sites and the old Blogspot domain.


I'll keep the domain "anamnesis.co" up until it expires, but from that point on the blog will only be available through the old address "anamnesisrm.blogspot.com", which for now will simply redirect you to the ".co" one. I'll be sure to keep reminding you about this change with plenty of time before the domain expires.