nabopoll is terrible software; don't use it
This is the second goddamn time, earning it the coveted title of the worst PHP software I've encountered that isn't also a Wordpress plugin. Enough already; it's gone. JP recently pointed me toward the decidedly more reputable-seeming PHPSurveyor this week, so I guess I'll be working on a DCist template for that.
Fortunately the jerk in question didn't do a very thorough job of trashing my site: he just killed the files in directories off the top level (sparing my blog, inexplicably) and put up some triumphal pages expressing his disapproval of US/Israeli foreign policy. Even more fortunately, my host has a backup from the 15th that they're pulling for me for $15. For those of you using the full text RSS script, sorry — it was one of the victims. A new & improved version will be available soon at a different location anyway, though, so just sit tight for now.
And hey, you know the saying: God doesn't close a metasploit session without opening an interesting LUG thread. So I've got big things planned: a nightly backup to my own RAIDed SVN repository that in turn backs itself up to Amazon S3. It'll be great.
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Your key role in framing our nation's failed policies in the Middle-East is well-documented.
I'm glad someone's finally got the guts to say it to your face.
Is there a way to interrogate Tom's "manifest destiny" program without being accused of anti-Tomism? No, I suspect there isn't.
I keep telling you people: we need that oil to power our servers
$15!? Seems to me that kind of service should be free-ish.
Eh, not for the dirt-cheap prices that Hasweb charges. Besides, pulling a backup is a pain. An up-to-date backup of your system is reasonable to expect; asking them to pull a specific date, not as much.
Anyway, I've not got a nightly perl script that handles it for me. I still need to back up my SVN repository to S3 -- my Linux machine doesn't relay mail properly, so if my RAID array failed I wouldn't necessarily know about it until it was too late -- but for now it's fine.
Well.. I have been using PHPSurveyor for a long time.. Go for it!