It’s odd that SOHH isnt back up at this point. I know they must have been putting in some serious work trying to get it fixed. Maybe it’s worse than we all thought it might be. Most of the time when a site gets hacked it’s back up within a few hours. That is assuming that you’ve got your database backed up regularly and a good server company that you can contact and inform them of the problems.
I’ll tell you I worked at SOHH for about a year running the Dirty blog from the start until the end of April. It was a constant battle of bullshit with them over there. They always seemed more interested in spreading gossip and rumors to get page views over real hip hop. In the end they let me go with zero notice. I was sent an email on the last day of the month told that I was no longer needed. But I could have guessed it was coming at some point because there were always problems with their clueless methods of running things.
It was always one thing or another. Write a hot headline just to get pageviews. Dont use YouTube videos while other bloggers throw up videos from every other site out there. Dont link to your own site even though the contract you signed said you can continue your own site and it was agreed to that I could link to it everyday in every post if I chose to. Dont do this, dont do that. All of that drama for a small amount of money, but the experience taught me a lot. I knew alot about what to expect in the beginning. TrillSouth is a real site, SOHH is full of gossip and rumors and stories copied from other places, sometimes cut and pasted with slight changes. So I hate to see anyone hacked the way they have been because it could happen to any of us at anytime and it’s truly a huge headache. But in a way I cant help but think this is the way of Karma. SOHH fuck’em!