Posted on: April 6th, 2009 by Famous Phil

I have been asked this question many times and I’m sure I’ve responded online before, but never in a formal blog, so here it is

Back in high school at Ellicottville Central, I got matthouse.us because I wanted a domain and wanted to start a personal network, thus the matt – house.  My shortened last name is Matt and it is in my house.  Matthouse was never intended to serve personal content, it was mainly for networking and experimentation with a possiblity of future expansion (such as its current use: hosting).

As a result, I wanted a personal site.  I am not a creative person, in fact, I’m quite boring and I will never approach you and offer help, I always will wait for you to approach me and ask for my help.  I’m far too busy normally to want to offer help, yet I am more than willing to help when asked   So back to my site, I was at a loss and asked my creative writing classmates for help.  We spent an entire day as a class of 15 people coming up with a site and concluded with a decision on “phamousphil.com”.

I got the domain that night and started putting stuff on it, but the ph was always confusing to people so I also grabbed the famousphil.com version.  A year later, I ended up sticking with famousphil.com and got rid of phamousphil.com because having 2 sites with the same content would hurt me on google’s ratings.

In the past few months, I have heavily fixed famousphil.com, patching most of the major php bugs and holes in my site that could potentially wipe it from an easy virus.  About 4 months ago, my site had a sql injection to where on any url, you could type “http://famousphil.com/index.php?mode=delete * from *” and it would wipe my site and archives.  Thankfully for 2 years, no one ever did that trick.  I’m sure there were many other bugs also.  I never fixed it sooner because I keep daily backups and it wasn’t a priority until I got the time to properly redesign my site.

So, I’ve put out a little about about the origins of FamousPhil.com and a tiny bug that existed until 3 months ago.  If you are a hacker, don’t you wish you knew that a while back *I am laughing now*.  Things change for the better… “fo sho” -Justin Hyland (amphosted.com).

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