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Big downtime, big changes
You may have noticed a lot of our sites have been online over the weekend. This is because of some security issues we ran into that were serious enough for us to pull the main web server until they had been resolved.
The aftermath of which is that we still have a lot of work to do in checking over our network to ensure everything is secure. This also leads onto the a wider problem which means we are going to have to make some changes.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there who are just simply bad people. This people thrive on other people's misery, hacking, destroying and spamming. They are the scum of the earth up, up there with pedophiles and people who talk at the theatre.
The Worfolk Online network as always had a philosophy of keeping our legacy sites online so people have access to as much content as possible and because the internet currently suffers from big problems in terms of content only being available for short periods. How many pages have existed for more than 18 months? Not many. This results in many dead links as pages appear and disappear while annoys and flustrates all of us.
Unfortunately we simply can't keep a network the size of ours secure and safe from from all the scum out there. So we're going to begin culling our network quite dramatically. Our important sites will be kept online of course and we hope to keep most of them online. But a lot will disappear. So enjoy them while you can.
Bug fix on sites listings
Today we noticed a small bug on the sites listings which resulted in sites which have the same name as other sites (usually an old and new when they are both online) using the wrong URLs. This has now been taken care of.
As far as we can tell it only affected the lists for WorfolkOnline.com and SpoofBox.com linking to the old sites on both listings. They both now point to the correct URL.
Corporate re-design
After the fresh new look we've just given this site we are also working on a new and updated version of our corporate site, Worfolk.biz.
The new site will remain largely the same in terms of design and will just smooth over a few issues and get things looking a little better.
The behind the scenes changes have been a little more extensive though - we've redone the site in CSS so that it cuts out a lot of the code and makes the site much faster to load.
More importantly we're changing the content, bringing it up to date, adding more information where needed and removing the content that nobody reads.
We're also debating the idea of adding a corporate blog to track the major developments although that is still to be decided on.
Version 4d launches
You may notice that things are looking a little different around here - the site has a new colour scheme, we've ditched the black and gone for a nice white layout to make it match with the rest of our corporate sites and because it's a bit easier to read.
We've also added some new information, a fresh new logo and generally done some updating to the site.
Blog launches
Yes, we have finally given in and added a blog to the site. It's mainly so we can post updates about network outages, planned downtime, activities going on in the network and so forth.
Our network
Over the past decade, we have operated almost 300 different websites, delivering hundreds of thousands of page views per month.