My sites were down pretty much about 24 hours yesterday. BECAUSE I WAS HACKED! What a blow it was…actually my host server was hacked, and all the accounts in it removed. When I found out yesterday morning, it was like, a NIGHTMARE! As I had just spent a few days before with the server migration, and now with this. I even receive an email from Text-link-ads, asking why my site was down. I was so afraid they would remove all the advertisers like they did before. At first it was all panic, then I had to get my head together to redownload the files and databases from my old server and wait for the server to be revived and reupload again. In the process I lost a few posts and comments as I didn’t have the latest backups. If you posted a comment, please post again. 😛
Eventually today, everything is back to normal. I must remember to do frequent backups from now onwards, and so will my host. But it’s not easy, and it’s a pretty lengthy process too, especially with my many years of blogging. This blog alone has a database of about 60 over MB. Not fun to download and upload each time. I still have lots to do, like upgrading WordPress and more. What a day it was…
Poor you. THEY MUST HAVE SNAPSHOTS….or else demand compensation.
60MB on DB? What you store man?? Must be alot of spam you did not clear.
Anyway, move to my host, I’ll co-pay for you.
Best regards
azrin @ http://www.kedai.tv
Co-pay? Thanks for the offer mate..but already paid for a year..so will see how it goes. I’m not sure what I have on DB. but yea. most probably the spams..which I never clear! So where do you host on? Dedicated?
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