But i have to come to learn that the hackers taking advantage of the holidays hacked the main server and have stolen the domain also. So basically now they are running a site which is a less featured clone on videoswiper.com . They reset all the accounts by redirecting the email which was admin[AT]videoswiper.com. Also they have the balls to say that the original owner is doing phishing . They also have stolen downloadMod.php code from my site Videoswiperplus and saying that they have written it.

I hope jason gets his sites back soon.

You can read more about it here – http://www.jasontaylor.me.uk/2010/01/04/videoswiper-hacked-dont-be-fooled/

Hackers should be dealt swiftly , i did have a soft side for these guys when i was a kid. But now i think they should be treated like common criminals , and maybe some should be made an example out of to stop the damage they cause.
Lesson learned – Avoid having emails for hosting and other important accounts like email@yoursite.com , if yoursite.com DNS record gets hacked all emails are redirected by hackers to reset everything and you will never come to know what happened. I believe sites like gmail , yahoo are much safer in this case. Also keep diffrent password for every single account , atleast the important ones.

VideoSwiper Plus is now online, it is a set of premium services for the original VideoSwiper. This site adds a few important required services to videoswiper making it even better.

Last 5 – 6 weeks been working on it and learned a lot. As this deals with Video’s on a web , not only checked out a lot of Video Scripts but also had to do encoding , thumb nailing etc of videos. Also found out that most Video Scripts out there are badly coded and have bad databases ( No one ever heard of normalization ?? ) . It is based on BaseApp and build on it was fun.Anyhow it was a nice experience , So if you run a Video Site do check it out.