Hi all,
A huge thanks to everyone who donated to the GPS Team Challenge fundraiser recently, it has allowed us to make plans to move hosting to make the site more reliable.
Speaking of reliability...
You might have come across some news articles recently that mentioned a massive exploit in PHP, which runs about 70% of the world's websites. Well, the venerable old gpstc website also runs on PHP. An old version. A very old version. An unpatched version. The threat from this exploit was so severe, that the server host shut down our website to prevent unauthorised abuse.
But fear not, we have had some work going on quietly in the background for the last several months. A very talented developer has been working to modernise the GPS Team Challenge, and had commissioned a replacement site for the GPS Team Challenge which was up and running a month or two ago.
So once this PHP exploit came around, we thought it best to just bite the bullet and move to the new hosting, with the view to switching over the website to the new version once the new version is fully tested.
I'm pleased to announce that
gpsteamchallenge.com.au is back up and running, with extra bells and whistles coming soon.
I have to give a HUGE thanks to Dylan Tusler, who was a pleasure to work with over this process, and I'd invite everyone to thank him as well, as he is the reason that the site is back up again so soon.
Good winds,
Ben
