Experimenting with Mambo

by Sapphire (July 12, 2005)

Remember a while back, I said I was going to convert one of my underperforming affiliate marketing sites from straight HTML to a CMS format, just to see how it worked? Well, I didn’t forget. Nor did I get busy doing other things. What held me up was: security issues.

I was running a practice Mambo installation as a personal site, and started seeing people who weren’t me in my “authorized login” section of AwStats. My host assured me no one had gotten into the site, and it all had something to do with people logging into their temporary FTP address or something.

But when I started looking around, I heard some things about the latest security issue in Mambo (at that time) that made me think it may have been the culprit. So I backed off from using it, fearful it was insecure.

The other day, I did a bit more research, and now I have several more culprits for security problems: Awstats and Google, mainly. One of my hosts recently disabled the “update now” feature in AwStats because it had security issues. And Google’s Web Accelerator is making the web less secure for everyone. In fact, that’s going to be my next article.

Bottom line: I’ve decided it’s likely something other than Mambo was the problem. So I’m going to convert an underperforming blog to Mambo, instead of the underperforming aff site, so we can see how it performs on a site that’s regularly updated.

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