Aaaaand we’re back!

Ah, feels so good to be back! :)

The past few weeks have been quite an experience. My website went down for 3 whole days. When it finally came back online, the site was looking utterly messed up, with outdated versions of installed plugins and themes. There was no sign of the theme I had tweaked to suit my needs. Instead, I was greeted with a look that I had discarded quite some time ago. I had also lost an entire month’s worth of posts, customizations and settings.

The reason for this unplanned time-travel into the past was that my hosting provider had restored the latest backup he had of my site – which was a month and few days old. And yours truly never backed up his site once, placing all his blogging eggs into one digital basket. Unfortunately my basket err… website was one of the several thousands of websites that were floored by a 0-day vulnerability discovered in HyperVM and duly exploited by malicious minds. You can read more about it here.

Anyways, the damage had been done. I felt that the loss was too much and the blog would never be the same again. So I decided to archive it and start afresh. What followed was a frantic few days deciding what to do and how to do it. After a bit of inspiration and its implementation, this is the new face of aBHi 24×7.

That’s it for now. Explore and see how the site feels like. I’ll be detailing and explaining the logic behind the changes in a subsequent post shortly. :)

What Others Are Saying

  1. Saqib Jun 18, 2009 at 11:48 PM

    Hey, I too suffered much from that hack attack. I too lost my data of some 40 days. BTW, ur theme rocks.

    • Abhishek Jun 19, 2009 at 3:51 PM

      Thanks! Made it myself! :)

  2. Abhishek Jun 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM

    Yes, now I might be tempted to perform daily backups! :D

  3. thewisecrab Jun 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    Nice to see you back online (and return the favour :p)
    Moral of the story: Back up! :D It’s never too late to do it. In fact, I’m inspired to do so after reading this :D
    (Now pass a comment on my blog :p)

    Regards,
    thewisecrab

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