Copywriters Board Gets Renovated
You may know this, but my free Copywriters Message Board was the target of hackers in recent weeks. Not once, but twice.
This free forum is where top and aspiring copywriters alike converge to discuss, critique and share tips on anything and everything about copywriting. Some members include Gary Halbert, John Carlton, John Reese, Armand Morin, Clayton Makepeace, as well as a ton of top copywriters, both known and not so well-known.
Anyhow, these hacking attempts have forced me to move from the open-source phpBB to the more versatile, more robust and more secure vBulletin. I’m actually surprised at how easy it was. And the new board rocks! (And apparently, board members love it, too.)
What do you think? Glide on over and check it out, and post your comments — either here, below, on the board itself (there’s a thread on board feedback, and it’s free to register and join).
Click here to check out the all-new Copywriters Board.
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Posted by Michel Fortin on July 14th, 2006. Filed in News, Questions, Resources, Websites. Tagged as Copywriting, critique, forum, free, gary halbert, john carlton, john reese, open source, phpbb, question, vbulletin. Follow responses through the RSS feed.
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From Lynette
That’s a good approach Michel. When I had to setup a private board recently even though it’s private, I decided against phpBB it’s just getting to be like Microsoft - too widely used, too many attempts at cracking it.
Author's Website July 14th, 2006
From Michelle
Vbulletin is amazing! I’ve used this program for four years now and have never once had it hacked — despite running a very controversial forum with it. FTR, I’m new to The Copy Doctor and I can’t wait to see what everyone has to say.
Author's Website July 15th, 2006
From Rajesh Sharma
Hi Michel,
Thanks for creating free forum for top and aspiring copy writers.
Rajesh Sharma
http://rajeshmsharma.blogspot.com
Author's Website July 15th, 2006
From Patty
Great job! I have always wondered about the vbulletin message boards. I am new to copy doctor as well and look foward to learning more to grow my businesses.
Author's Website July 15th, 2006
From AGW
We had the same hacker problem with our boards. This is a known problem and those free phbb boards should be avoided at all costs. The hackers can use them to get into your server and use the server as a Spam relay, which causes all sorts of problems. We ended up moving our server after this problem.
This is not an obscure problem only effecting a few sites. Check out this story about Google:
http://fmmg.wordpress.com/
If it can effect Google, you can be sure that it can hit you too!
Author's Website July 15th, 2006
From James Opiko
More power to you Michel!
I haven’t logged in yet, I will after this post.
vBulletin is the best there is and I am probably going that direction too - lot’s of ready made features unlike phpBB which when heavily moded is a nightmare come upgrade time.
On hackers & spammers - I hate you like cocroaches crawling into my food!
Author's Website July 15th, 2006
From Jeff Paul, Jim Fleck & Mal Emery reveal there Million Dollar secrets.
Hi Michel,
I understand how you would be feeling.
On the weekend 10 of the 13 sites on my server were hacked. They left a couple and luckily after 10 hours I have everything back up bar 1 site that is at about 80%. I wish I had been backing up religously. Unfortunately I hadn’t.
I remember not long ago I received an email from one of the relatively top marketers promoting a webserver backup tool. I didn’t buy it and now wish I had. Which sort of relates back to the TOM (Top Of Mind) theory. I probably would have got annoyed if he kept sending me emails about the software but guaranteed if I had of received one in the last week or within the next week I would be buying it.
As Jeff Paul says on the course I have (www.lazy-internet-marketing.com) you should keep promoting to your list until they buy or die. And it is just for this reason.
Anyway, I really like the forum. I had read about it before but this time have joined.
Best of Luck
Justin Bryce
Author's Website July 16th, 2006
From Victor
Sorry to hear about the hackers, but I love the new board! Thanks for what you do to resource us who are learning something new every day from what you make available. Glad to learn about how to combat this problem if I run into it in the future.
Victor
http://www.soccerball-sale.com
Author's Website July 17th, 2006
From CG
Good call Michel. I’ve read of phpBB hacking issues, but now I realised how real they are.
Author's Website July 18th, 2006
From hillbilly
Hello.
Nice forum design. Okay, I need your help.
So, I wanna make personal site, and I am looking for site template.
Can you suggest some online catalog or other resource where I can find many site templates?
It would be better if it will be free:)
I think many of us have personal sites, do you design it yourself?
Thanks a lot, Bill.
Author's Website January 7th, 2007
From JackyMool
Who can help me with .httpaccess ?
where i can fined full information about .httpaccess file syntaxis?
Author's Website February 4th, 2007