ARGGGH.

In two months time, I’ve had two different servers I was using to web
host die on me, and lose weeks of work and site updates.

First a drive on www.gimp.org died, taking 2 months worth
of updates with it (www.japanairband.com was vhosted on
that box).

So then I decide to move to a commercial web provider.
(www.alwayswebhosting.com if you want to know who
to avoid).

Un fucking beliveable. Apparently the
guys running the site were complete fucking morons,
and the box got compromised. And the last good backup
was a month ago aka, before I moved the site there.
Un fucking beliveable. So, basically, all those
changes I made in the last month are gone. The
daily backups arent available because the server
was compromised and the colo want allow
the box to be brought backup (which is
relatively sane, but still… mount the disk
read-only on an admin box somewhere and let
me try to rescue my content off of it)

So, basically, expect the site to be
down for a week or so, as I move to different
providers, and wait for DNS to propagate again.
The fucking morons running the site were running
a known exploitable printer server on that machine.
Why the fuck they were running a print server on
a fucking dedicated webhosting box I have no idea.
And to make it even more annoying, if they had
just used the damn software I work on every
fucking day to keep the box up to date, it wouldnt
of happened.

And of course, I’m a huge fucking moron
and didnt have local backups of the updated
content and web apps. Not to mention not
thinking about checking to see if they
were complete fucking retards and were running
LPR with a fucking year old known exploit.

I cant belive I’m going to have to go and recreate
that fucking mess again. Argh.