Today we experienced our first downtime. This is obviously the risk one takes when hosting a site on a shared server.
Last night one of our hosting neighbours’ site were hacked and used as a phishing site. The ISPs obviously had enough and block the servers IP address, sending us all back to the nineties with “page can’t be found” messages. Read the rest of this entry »
So today we had to get up early to prepare for a whole day meeting with a client. We went through the morning routine like usual and as the coffee brewed in the background I slowly settled in front of my laptop. First stop, the inbox.
Normally I’ll filter through the newsletters and junk mail and respond to the necessary. This morning however I was greeted with over 1000 emails in my teacherseeker.co.za inbox, from Anita Intern (anitaedris16@yahoo.com).
To give you a bit of background: Teacherseeker send an automatic email to users alerting them if another user messaged them or when someone applied for a job. Just like facebook used to do in the beginning, accept we’ve done it before them :-p So I’ve set up an account to track all these auto messages.
Today it seems that Anita Intern (anitaedris16@yahoo.com) had contacted over a 1000 users on the site, asking them for cash. For each user they contacted I received my alert and about another 500 emails form legitimate users complaining about this person.
I would hereby like to inform all the teacherseeker.co.za users that we’ve removed this user from the system and please feel free to pop an email off to anitaedris16@yahoo.com and tell them to fuck off. Thanks
So we pack the bags, tents and medication and set off to nowhere nowhere land to films this years Africa Burn
Wow what and adventure. Spit or Swallow participated for the first time at Winex this year, with our own stand, manned by Elvis, Dora and Madame de Wyn.
Rate and review wine farms.
Spitorswallow.co.za is one of South Africa’s leading wine sites. It’s also the first site to provide the general public with a rate and review system focusing exclusively on wine estates. The site harness the power of social media and new media to create an informative portal for all wine lovers and wine drinker alike.
A free job board for teachers.
Teacherseeker.co.za is the grandpa website under the 406 label. It allows teacher to apply directly for vacancies and teaching jobs, posted by schools and recruiters.
Small things matter. Amuba is 406 in-house design and wordpress development arm. We help dreaming up niche online initiates and build it. We’re small but we dream big
