Why we were down for four days – Hypergrid Business

As many of you pointed out in emails to me, Hypergrid BusinessÂ has been down since Friday morning.

There was an infection on the site, and it took Sucuri, our security service, and DreamHost, our hosting provider, four days to resolve the issue, which included three different rounds of cleaning out infected files.

I have a suspicion that the problem might be linked to an out-of-date theme. The WordPress themeÂ we use on the site is a highly customized version of Hueman, so customized that we can’t update it.

And yes, I understand the irony of this, since I tell grid owners not to do that with their OpenSim code.

So I’ve switched back to the official version of Hueman, hoping that it won’t break the site too much.Â With a little tweaking, so far, it seems to be working. Knock on wood.

But will look a little wonky for the next few days, while I work on fixing other problems that pop up.

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Maria Korolov

Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Email her at [email protected]. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.