Moving Servers is not fun especially when it could have been avoided

I explained in my last post that we had to rebuild servers over the weekend, this was due to a security exploit in the VoteCasterPro Comdevweb application. One thing that upsets me about this is I subscribe to a lot of security mailing list and I also do not install applications in their default locations. A message to the company essentially resulted in a note from them saying they sent a e-mail to every customer in their database.

They obviously did not reach me. If I were that company I would have sent a letter called customers what ever it took to make sure the word got out. This is a small application that can fall off the radar. Another thing I learned in this ordeal is that I will never ever again use Plesk it is horrible! Some good lessons learned. Needless to say it is nice to be on a dedicated server that has a lot more flexibility and power under the hood.