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WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

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Re: WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

#81

What options are left if you need a simple website builder that's not a) Wordpress, which is a swamp filled with mines in the form of plugins b) Wix, which forces hosting and bad HTML on you Basically I want a Wordpress-like frontend + the rich template ecosystem and for it to spit out static HTML files.

There are many solutions out there that can generate static sites from a WordPress installation. For example, you can use gatsby.js to generate a static site using WordPress as data source.

Re: WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

#82

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Doesn't matter. A WordPress plugin/theme developer has no business altering the content of sites using their software.

I don't know anything about WordPress, but isn't a plugin supposed to alter the content of the site using their software? If it didn't, why use it?

Generally speaking, most WordPress plugins alter the presentation or functionality of a site, not its content. There's some exceptions, like search-and-replace [1], but even in those cases the functionality is made obvious to the user.

[1]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/

Re: WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

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On a tangent, let's talk BlueHost. While the call to host switch is malicious, almost every developer in WordPress world will agree BlueHost, and their parent company with all their 50+ hosting companies, are utter garbage. The only reason they exist is because they have hired an army of bloggers and pay them affiliate income of $65 / signup. As far as disabling Endurance Cache goes, it is completely legitimate. It's…

I'm curious which host you'd recommend. I want a good host for making websites. Not sure if I need to be a reseller or just use their shared hosting. I'm hoping to create lots of static websites for different small businesses, and then cheaply host them. Considering Namecheap, DreamHost, and BlueHost, but I'm also hoping there's one that allows nudity (not porn, just artistic nudity). Or if there's a host that allows…

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Re: WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

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What options are left if you need a simple website builder that's not a) Wordpress, which is a swamp filled with mines in the form of plugins b) Wix, which forces hosting and bad HTML on you Basically I want a Wordpress-like frontend + the rich template ecosystem and for it to spit out static HTML files.

There are many solutions out there that can generate static sites from a WordPress installation. For example, you can use gatsby.js to generate a static site using WordPress as data source.

Just to clarify for myself, this person asked for alternatives that are not WordPress and Wix and you're recommendation is to use WordPress?

Re: WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many solutions out there that can generate static sites from a WordPress installation. For example, you can use gatsby.js to generate a static site using WordPress as data source.

Just to clarify for myself, this person asked for alternatives that are not WordPress and Wix and you're recommendation is to use WordPress?

My point if if you want wordpress ecosystem but don't want the associated risk, there are many ways to generate static websites from a wordpress installation. You can run wordpress locally in your local development computer and only host the generated static html in your server/hosting provider.

Re: WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

#86

I'm a little late on the wagon here but someone seems to have made a recent backup of the code on Github: https://github.com/longwave/p3

That is me, I found a Dropbox link containing the repo on Twitter and thought it might be a good idea to preserve it.

Well thanks Sir! It seems they've lost their copy of the code history so it's a good job you made a nice backup of it for them.

Re: WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

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post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a tangent, let's talk BlueHost. While the call to host switch is malicious, almost every developer in WordPress world will agree BlueHost, and their parent company with all their 50+ hosting companies, are utter garbage. The only reason they exist is because they have hired an army of bloggers and pay them affiliate income of $65 / signup. As far as disabling Endurance Cache goes, it is completely legitimate. It's…

I'm curious which host you'd recommend. I want a good host for making websites. Not sure if I need to be a reseller or just use their shared hosting. I'm hoping to create lots of static websites for different small businesses, and then cheaply host them. Considering Namecheap, DreamHost, and BlueHost, but I'm also hoping there's one that allows nudity (not porn, just artistic nudity). Or if there's a host that allows…

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET has strong free-speech policies. But they do expect you to be technically competent. If you're not comfortable with the command line and wp-cli (if you're using WordPress), you probably won't be happy with them.

If you checked them out years ago, they've since added support for custom HTTP servers. It's not as flexible as a VPS, but they're no longer limited to static files, PHP, or CGI. You can now run Django, Ruby-on-Rails, etc.

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