We're back!

[Petie]

I was really starting to worry is it was this heartbleed thing I keep hearing about. Its good to know you got things going again regardless of the fact.

Speaking of Heartbleed... Is VGFacts affected/fixed/going-down-again-to-fix-it? ;)

I mean, I appreciated the vacation. I had life stuff to catch up on. But I'm glad to have to site back up in time to take care of some things on my RSS feed before they expire.

I thought I replied to this already... Oops!

No, this downtime was not related to Heartbleed. While we are currently running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL, we're not actively using SSL on any of our sites at the moment so there is nothing to exploit. Of course, this does mean you should be careful with your passwords. Since you're logging in on an unencrypted connection, the risk of password capture is always there. While it may not be the end of the world to have your account here stolen, it would be a very different story if you used the same username and password for your bank account as well and they got in there too.

Best practice is to use a unique password for each site (I do) but at the very least, make sure passwords for more sensitive accounts (bank, PayPal, etc.) are unique.

As to the second half, once it's available through the normal channels, I will of course patch OpenSSL but that should only take a minute or two so there won't really be any downtime for it.