Necessary Effort To Beef Up The Site

Several members emailed me asking why spending several weeks on upgrading the site to use new wordpress backend. It has been working fine, so why waste time on something cosmetic. Since this could be a question that many of you also wanted to ask me, I am going to post the reasons behind.

First thing first it is security issue. There are escalating attempts to hack, hijack, and break-in to the site. It is happening everyday. With the old version of wordpress, which has quite a number of security issues, will be compromised soon if I choose not to do anything.

Some of you may remember that last year there were several incidents that the site was slowed down and crashed during trading hours. The last few times that happened were due to hostile hacking attempts.

Second, in order to offer download file area, real-time signals, alerts and other goodies, a more efficient wordpress backend is needed. The old version I was using will have difficulty in handling heavy real-time upload and download while hosting our real-time chat at the same time.

Majority of these work is now done, so I will be back on my normal schedule soon with more time to write about trading techniques and market bias.

Later!

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