Yup this week was a perfect storm.  But it could have been MUCH worse,  and today we are A LOT more secure then we were a few days ago. 
No passwords were compromised, but as I tell people if you want to change your password then you should change your password.
To be honest (insert embarrassed graphic here)  a lot of the issues we had after Wednesday Nights events were MY  FAULT.  In trying to figure out how to get us back online I disabled a  lot of things in the admin panel... I was so frantic I didn't remember  everything I turned off.  Then another stupid thing I did was I turned  off the navigation manager in the admin control panel which messed up  the navigation bar at the top of the page.  When people were telling me  that it was broken I did a restore of a style file to try getting it  back... unfortunately that style I uploaded was the wrong one and wiped  out some of the settings like Whats New...  I do have a backup of the  styles at my office, but like a dummy I shut my computer down for the  week so I cant remote access it and get the backed up file.  And after  all of that it wasn't the style what was the problem.. the problem was I  turned OFF the navigation manager so I actually overwrote the working  settings. (whoops)
The other part of this perfect storm was the  updated SatelliteGuys app came out.  While I was expecting the update to  come out, I was not expecting them to change the URL for the program to  be changed from SatelliteGuys.US to SatelliteGuys.COM.  That was  something we talked with them about doing and they were SUPPOSED to  coridinate with us on a cutover date to  the .com address.  That didn't  happen they just cut over and .COM was not ready to go... thats why  everyone was getting the error.  I had to setup .COM from the ship which  was a slow painful process.
The final issue the internet  itself... on the ship the internet worked, and sometime when it was  snappy and other times it was slow...  it was always the slowest the  most when I was REALLY needing it to be fast.  But luckily (THANK YOU  GOD) this was the FIRST WEEK that the ship has ever offered UNLIMITED  INTERNET on board.  Without it it would have cost me over $1,000 in  internet fees.
I am flying home today, I am actually sitting in  the airport now waiting to get on the plane back to Hartford.  Once I  get back tomorrow I will dive in and fix the rest of the things I broke  when I was trying to get us back online.
I would like to ask all  members to do the British thing and "Keep Calm and Carry On"  and no  longer discuss the events from Wednesday.  There is no reason to scare  other members as everything has been patched and fixed and I am  confident no user data has been compromised.  While no site will ever be  100% hacker proof I have made a number of changes to give us the best  security we have ever had.  In addition I have taken other appropriate  action which I can not publicly discuss.  From here on out I will no  longer be talking about what happened, its time to carry on and continue  working to make SatelliteGuys better for you!
		
		
	
	
This  was a perfect storm for us, and we learned a lot.  Again I am sorry for  all the issues, as many of them were my fault in trying to get things  back online for you!  We had a great week on our cruise and some very  exciting things are coming to SatelliteGuys.US!
Stay Tuned!