Official website of Hyperstar Pakistan (http://www.hyperstarpakistan.com/) is closed since months and still there is no news when it will be back.

Businesses in Pakistan still lag behind world because they dont realise the importance of web presence but i was not expecting such ignorance by a international group Carrefour.

Few of the company’s websites are hosted with Softhof hosting in Lahore, yesterday their server was hacked by some Pakis (names were written on hacked page) all websites hosted on their server were defaced. I check with reverse ip, they have hosted over 100 websites and most of them showing a defaced page. (see above)

Instead of restoring the backups, they removed the files from the users accounts so they never come to know what happened. I called them today and asked what happened with my company’s websites and i was told there was error in CPanel which is now restored. LOL Nice blaming the CPanel. They also said all the data is safe, knowingly all the websites are not opening.

Softhof is not the only unprofessional hosting companies in Pakistan, most of them even don’t have their own server. Always look for reviews before buying hosting for your web presence.

Updates:
Sep 22 11:30 PM – My company moved from Softhof by restoring own backup, Bye Bye Softhof, i dont know who recommended them such poor web host.

Sep 23 01:20 AM – There were over 3000 websites hosted on server, hacker posted the whole list here http://gaza-hacker.com/cc/showthread.php?t=14439 They were Arabic Muslim Hackers

Somebody please help Google resolving their “Technical Issues”. Google is having troubles since week. Last week Gmail was down for half day and today Google Docs is not working.

Im getting funny messages like:

Bad news is your page was not loaded.
Good news is you have helped google finding this issue.

Update: Today (Thursday, May 14, 2009 ) Google Analytics was down for hours, Google admit that during this downtime they were not able to collect website statistics. (Read for more info at http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/05/temporary-system-error-this-morning-now.html)

Update May 15, 2009. Message from Google “On May 14, some users experienced a network issue that affected multiple Google services for about an hour. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and we appreciate your patience as we resolved this issue”