I had planned on writing this big long diatribe about why this site (and all others on my server) have been down for 5+ days and how my hosting company did less than nothing to help recover them and how Mercury is in retrograde but I’m sick of thinking about it so I’ve decided to move on.
I will just point out these few things:
- Backup your sites right now. Files, databases, email, everything. Right now, and as often as you can remember.
- If you also happen to host someone’s site who generates a bit of blushing, especially amongst egyption-islamic-extremist-hackers, maybe put it on a separate server from the rest of your sites.
- Don’t count on your hosting company’s nightly backups to be available if their customer service takes 4 days to respond to requests for said backups (I’m looking at you Site5).
- Back up your shit. Again.
- Don’t expect your hosting company do to much of anything to help you recover anything (still looking at you Site5).
- Back up your shit.