Wiki hacked - thinking about drupal

[uraliss]

Hi Folks,
I recently set up a dokuwiki website for my band. We put our lyrics and music and other stuff on there and it has been really useful. Unfortunately it got hacked a few days ago and it looks like my isp are unable to restore it in a working state.

I've been thinking that instead of seeing this as a bad thing I would use the oppurtunity to try out another wiki/cms and I am being drawn towards drupal.

Has anyone had any experience of using drupal? What are your thoughts, successes and failures, Likes and Dislikes.
Is it relatively secure.

Do you think I should switch to Drupal?

[Obor]

I think whichever CMS you choose you will have to spend time and effort in securing your installation. I'm not sure which one is considered the safest by the gurus but it will only be as secure as the weakest spot.

With something like drupal/joomla (I use Joomla BTW) you will probably install a lot of 3rd party extensions, each one of them could provide a door for the attacker. I guess the best thing is to do regular backups and keep everything up to date and patch every hole that is discovered.

[muso]

I like using Drupal - used it on a couple of sites, and I find it nicely configurable (it can be styled with CSS) and flexible. Howerver - to repeat Obor - make sure you have regular backups, whatever you choose to use. No software is completely fail-safe.

[newbie2]

I like using Drupal .
its a belgium (my country :) ) student project:
http://buytaert.net/

ubuntu.com uses it also :
http://www.drupalsites.net/weblink/ubuntu-com

playboy uses it also :
http://buytaert.net/playboy-using-drupal

there is even a
drupal-song :lolflag: :guitar:
http://buytaert.net/the-drupal-song

[boredandblogging.com]

I would suggest signing up with someone who can do backups for you and pay for the backup service. Yeah, you probably don't want to pay for backups, but its better than starting from scratch.

[matthew]

I like Drupal and use it on two sites, one for a small business and one for a personal site. Drupal is as good as you want it to be :) . By that I mean you might have a little bit of a learning curve to get it to look how you want and that it's a good idea to keep up with security updates, but that's true with anything.

I will echo the other poster's suggestion: make backups regularly. Regardless of which software you use, this is always a good practice.

Good luck!

[BluJai]

I've been using Joomla on several sites with very good results.

I don't know if the same type of extension is available for Drupal, but Joomla has an extension which does an automated SQL backup of your database each day and e-mails it to you -- JomBackup system plugin. It has worked very well for me.

[neoaddict]

If you still want a wiki, I highly suggest you switch to MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/), the same wiki software Wikipedia runs on, but that might be something you've already decided against. :-/

[daynah]

I make backups in two different ways. I use the server's backup manager (you know, make a gzip or something of it all) and I also just have a copy of all of the files on my computer. This might not work well if you have a huge domain, but having a unzipped copy really helps me update easier offline and stuff. I just generally like it. IF you're good at keeping your offline copy updated, you only need to backup the databases.