njcrawford.com

I’m back on my normal server again. I had complete data loss and my backups weren’t as thorough as they should have been so I had to rebuild my configuration.

Moral of this story: if in doubt, back it up.

My web server was one of the 4,000 or so servers affected by the Vaserv HyperVM hack that started Sunday (June 7th), and my site has been down since then. I had a complete backup of all my web content that was made a couple hours before the outage started, so I’ve been able to restore pretty much everything. Many others were not so lucky… just another reason to make sure you have a backup system in place.

My site may be slow until my regular server comes back online, because the backup host I’m using isn’t very fast.