[MOBY-l] [MOBY-dev] What to do with the BioMoby website

[Mark]

Oh!  Okay then... crisis resolved :-)

Chris, you ROCK!!  Thank you for all your time and effort!!

Mark



On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:57:46 -0700, Chris Dagdigian <dag at sonsorol.org>  
wrote:

>
> Actually quick update from the sysadmin side here.
>
> We were able to regain admin access and it was actually not all that
> hard to migrate the blog from version 1.5.2 all the way up to wordpress  
> 3.0
>
> Currently we are re-processing 70,000 comments through the akismet spam
> tester. It's likely that 100% of those comments were spam but since I
> don't have time to manually review them we decided to pipe them through
> the spam filter again and see what stays.
>
> Anyway since the wordpress 3.0 upgrade went smoothly I think the "what
> to do" discussion has less urgency. If it would have been a beast to
> clean up the website then we'd proabably want to talk about relocating
> it to a less harmful sandbox but that no longer may be necessary.
>
> It will take me the rest of the week to see if our box is still
> compromised and we eventually need to wipe and update the entire system
> since it's running an ancient version of CentOS but overall I'm feeling
> OK with leaving the newly updated site as-is
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
>
>
> Mark wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As you know, we switched the BioMoby website to Wordpress several years
>> ago. We've just noticed that the WP installation has been compromised,
>> and unfortunately the update to a more secure version of Wordpress is
>> not a trivial process!
>>
>> So... I'm now wondering what we should do with the website. I must admit
>> that I rarely use it - I do look at the interactive map from
>> time-to-time, and the list of papers and software is often useful to
>> refer to... but the bloggy-aspect of the site is something that I simply
>> never use (and it hasn't been updated in quite a while!)
>>
>>  From my perspective, the Moby project is "finished", and I have
>> personally moved-on to the newer SADI interoperability framework project
>> (and I hope many Moby'ers will maked this move also!!) so other than
>> archival I have no personal interest in maintaining the current biomoby
>> website, but maybe others do?
>> Does anyone have an interest in any of the biomoby.org website content?
>> If so, please let me know which "bits" are useful/interesting to you and
>> I will create an archive of those pieces on a simple, straightforward
>> set of web pages. Those bits that nobody has an interest in will simply
>> be taken down, I think. We don't have time/manpower at the moment to do
>> a Wordpress upgrade, and having a compromised site on open-bio is not
>> something we can ignore!
>>
>> The biomoby domain, however, is still required as we have a ton of
>> proxying happening via that domain name, so the domain will remain up
>> and running. All we really need to do is take WordPress down, while
>> keeping any useful bits of the Wordpress site available in some simple
>> page-form.
>>
>> Let me know what you all think.
>>
>> Best wishes!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> P.S. If anyone is interested, we ran the stats the other day - the Moby
>> Central registry hosted in Canada was hit >800,000 times in the past
>> year, and the BioMoby services that we host here were hit almost 1.4
>> Million times in the past 12 months!! ...so... the project is still
>> pretty active for sure!!
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