For some light humor!
1) You really enjoy waking up in the morning with your coffee, hitting your homepage, and finding a new page marketing âspecial offersâ for âenhancementâ products⌠You spill your coffee, burnâŚouch.
2) You just love getting a hosting bill showing your site had somehow managed to use 4 terabytes of data last month, even though your site is actually just 3 small pages.
3) You appreciate the Friday afternoon calls from 2 of your largest customers, saying that they are switching to your competitor due to some aggressive marketing theyâve received⌠Hmm, wonder how your competition knew how many kitty trinkets your biggest customer ordered last week?
4) You relish the thought of not being able to send your weekly newsletter to your regular customers, since, for some reason, no emails are getting through and your hosting provider says you sent 1,540,098 emails in the past hour marketing Acai Beans. You sell catnip toys⌠Interesting.
5) Youâve had approximately 38.56 different people help you with your website, youâve changed hosters 6 times, and attempted to change the registrar of your domain three times but gave up. You know what they say about too many cooksâŚ
6) That great freeware guest- book system written by a kid in Slovakia with a name you canât even pronounce you thought was really neat in 2003 is actually still on the site, but youâve long forgotten about it being there. Google and the scammers didnât forget thoughâŚ
7) One of your designers installed a patch for your shopping cart 2 years ago and had problems. After googling for a solution for a few hours with no results they decided to chmod 777 * a few large directories. Voila, it works! And thatâs the way itâs been for 2 years now. Lovely.
8 ) You enjoy explaining to your customers how their private information is now front page news, or worse, with their ex-wifeâs lawyer!
9) The thought of having the marketing list you paid $10k for last year available to anyone is something you enjoy. Sharing and collaborating, thatâs what the net is all about, right?
10) You enjoy negotiating with a faceless individual from somewhere overseas that speaks like this âu will knot get ur d8a bck ever again unlezz u pay $80.000 dollarz.â. It wasnât just your corporate data, it was your friends and family as well⌠Ouch.. Get that wire transfer ready.
11) Finally… The end of the pain. Perhaps not. On top of all of the great âside effectsâ of not scanning your website â You get sued, your family gets sued, and now the âauthoritiesâ are looking into your business activities â because â surprise, surprise, there are laws surrounding data protection. Your business is kaput, your staff is leaving in droves, and everything youâve worked for for years now is gone. You thought you were diligent in picking a hosting provider, team members for the design and development and other folks for the rest of your business. However, when it came to someone offering you a fresh set of eyes into your site’s security, you said no. No, weâre ok. We check. Weâre fine. You thought website security scanning was like insurance. Perhaps it is. But we all miss it when we need it. In this case, you need it before you actually really need it. Because, by then, itâs too late.
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