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As many of you know, my blog went down this weekend.  We had problems on one of our dedicated servers caused by a hacker.  The core files on the server were replaced so when I rebooted the server, all indications were showing the server was down, but in the background it was controlled by the hacker sending out a flood of emails through our server.

The only way our support group could get in was through recovery disks and shell within the data center itself, not pretty.

The good news is it was a server we were looking at decomissioning, the bad news it had my blog and our Forex site, Lots-Of-Pips.com on it. 

Going through my files, I was able to find a backup from January 26th I created prior to updating Wordpress.  you would think by now I would have learned my lesson and be creating more regular backups.  Trying to restore my blog this time was much more painfull because of the amount of blogging I have been doing.  While the backup restored the posts and comments to january 26th, I have been going through Google cache/search this morning copy and pasting posts from January 26th to present.  I just finished and it amounted to a 81 page Word document.

Over the next couple weeks I will be restoring those lost posts back into the blog, hopefully before they drop out of the serps.

I opened my blog back up to Entrecard Ads today.  Since it was down for a few days, my ad price was all the way down to 2 credits.  It will take a few days to ramp it back up, so now is a good time to jump on my widget at a low price.  Last I checked, about 5 other entrecarders jumped on within the first 30 minutes I was back online.

Kevin

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