I’m back … somewhat …
If you happened upon my site earlier this evening you may have noticed that nothing was here.
Long story short: Somehow, someone got the login information to my hosting account and uploaded some scripts to my site and sent a bunch of spam email, and my web host suspended my site to stop it.
The good news: I got access to my site back within an hour or so.
The bad news: My account had to be “re-provisioned,” which means wiped clean. For security reasons the host couldn’t restore any of the files nor give me a backup. I lost all my files, my email accounts and saved email… everything.
The good news: I had backed up my Wordpress database yesterday so the main part of this site was (mostly) restored right away.
The bad news: I haven’t backed up anything else on my site for about six months.
The bad news: There will be dead links and images around here for a while while I finish getting things back on track. I don’t have any videos uploaded — I think I’ll store most of the older ones on my .mac MobileMe disk and link to them. Which means I need to go through all my archives and change the links to the videos. Unless some htaccess magic will do it … There’s some little minor layout issues that will bug me for a while until I figure them out. But I’m picky and am sure nobody else will notice.
Ugh. Shitty end to a shitty day. I didn’t even have any liquor in the house…
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