Lately, Our Wedding Services Site has received a fair amount of attention. Rev. Voodoo has been booked through the site for several weddings. So while we had to go about reinstalling the site, we figured we’d give it a fresh look. So check out the new facelift it’s had, and don’t forget to recommend it to anyone you know in the planning stages!
Wow, that was tough! The entire Empire was brought down by a nasty little bug. Along with all the footer spam we had been getting, every one of our php files had some sort of base64_decode commands inserted into them that was really messing up everything. Rev. Voodoo had to edit or reinstall everything. That’s 4 wordpress sites, hundreds of plugins, the upload site, the shop, the forums, the wiki……everything. It took the better part of 12 hours to recover, but it looks like we are there. Unfortunately it’s nearly impossible to tell if we got everything…..and we have no idea how to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But for now, enjoy everything we have to offer once again. As always, we will stay vigilant, and continue fighting!
Comin at ya this time, we’ve got a brand new track from The Voodoo Empire’s very own DJ Odawa. This track is some real nice DnB that you are gonna want to turn way up! Enjoy!
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It’s less than a month now until October 17th! Wow, time has flown by. Hopefully you have been keeping up with the details over on our wedding website. A whole lot of details have gone up on the site lately. Most importantly there are links to directions and maps for ya! Check it out.
For a little while things were pretty shakey. We’d lost access to Angela and Jamie’s wedding site, along with the upload site. Not to mention we had no access to our hosting at all. Things are pretty much recovered. All sites are restored, as is hosting access. We’ve even managed to sneak in a little upgrade! The blog page over on the Voodoo Empire main page is no longer a barebones rss import through an xslt fragment…. it’s a full & complete import from this blog. That pretty much doesn’t mean too much to you, the user, except that we can keep that page more stylized and pretty! Plus you can see photos and listen to music directly from the blog page without having to come here first! Yay, less clicks! The only thing left to do now is wait to see if the Spam attack comes back before we declare total victory!
Well, we continue to be the subject of Footer Spam Link attacks. Rev. Voodoo has thoroughly cleaned all Voodoo Empire sites, and made sure that all proactive measures were followed. So the attack must be coming from somewhere else on the host machine. That’s the downfall of shared hosting I guess. As of now, Rev. Voodoo can’t even log on to his host, so it’s hard to tell what damage is being done. Hopefully we won’t lose too much……
Over the past couple years, Rev. Voodoo has experimented with many different software packages for building websites. And those website services have been left online and available for anyone to use. Keeping an eye on traffic level and activity it is apparent that some of these sites are just not used. Sites like the Voodoo Community, Club Voodoo, VoodooSpace, and the VoodooPic site haven’t really been maintained in some time, and they really don’t match up with, provide use for, or present The Voodoo Empire very well. So over the next little while these little side-project websites will be deleted. This will leave the core Voodoo Empire sites for people to enjoy. Besides why have anything up that’s substandard?
These following sites are the ones we will keep online for The Voodoo Empire as they are continuously monitored and improved:
If anyone actually likes any of the other sires, let us know before we delete them!
It’s been a while, but this weekend Rev. Voodoo has another Wedding to Officiate. Should be a good time. It’s been a while since the wedding services page was set up, and recently it’s been seeing a decent amount of traffic. Matter-of-fact, we’ve actually had about 4 requests between Ankhjii and Rev. Voodoo that we’ve had to turn down. One for July 3rd next year, which we’re already booked for, and a couple near this halloween, which is obviously booked for our own wedding. But it’s cool to get the interest, it’s a few extra dollars in the pocket, but most of all, they are just fun to do!
Time for a little DnB madness from the Voodoo Empire! This is a Limit1 podcast from Ed Rush & Optical, you know its gotta be good!
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Well, here’s tha backstory. A couple years ago Rev. Voodoo was searching the google machine to see what all Rev. Voodoo and Voodoo Empire sites had been indexed. And he came across http://reverendvoodoo.com. However, this site wasn’t part of The Voodoo Empire, it belonged to some other guy. So we checked it out, and checked out where it was hosted and then put down a backorder fee on the domain name. Then, totally forgot about that. And after a couple of years, whoever owned that site didn’t renew it on time, and it was automatically transferred to The Voodoo Empire! Cool! It is currently set to forward to The Voodoo Empire main page, until we decide if it needs it’s own page, or if forwarding is enough.
