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Yeah, that's one of those applications that you really need to colo and secure yourself with outside security verification, or at the very least go with a host
by ericd 13y ago
Yeah, that's one of those applications that you really need to colo and secure yourself with outside security verification, or at the very least go with a host that has a reputation for ironclad security. Hosting that kind of thing on a low-cost VPS is ridiculous.
- ceol 13y agoFrom what I remember, it was a 17 year old kid who built and ran the site, and it was his first time ever handling financial transactions (there was another bitcoin-related hacking around the same time, so I might be confusing them.) It was a recipe for disaster.
- sillysaurus 13y agoIt's incredible how much people are willfully ignoring Linode's gross incompetence in this matter.
- ceol 13y agoTheir only gross incompetence was not informing customers in a timely manner, which I could forgive them for. Having a security breach is something that happens to, quite literally, every hosting provider. I say all this as someone who dropped Linode for DO due to not being able to afford them anymore.