My web site just got utterly wiped out!

[thewayne]

Strangest thing. I was working on my site, Spare Brains Games, cleaning up some mis-installation stuff. I had just installed two Wiki systems for a new project (collaborative rules editing) and was down to something like 30meg available disk space. So I go to uninstall some scripts, and while they're processing, I go back to my Wiki admin screen to begin configuring it and all of a sudden I'm getting a screen like the Wiki system isn't there. I refresh, same thing. So I go back to my site's root, and I'm getting a page showing that the whole site isn't there.

Bad. Very bad.

Next, since I have the site management tool (cPanel) open in another browser (one of only two reasons that I use Internet Exploder), open the file manager and go to the WWW directory.

NOTHING THERE.

Very bad, indeed!

I was able re-upload the site from my laptop, but that doesn't include the mailing list that I'd created and had a few people join. No one had posted on my boards and there'd been only one entry in my guest list, so that's not bad, just time installing and configuring. But the addresses lost from the mailing list program is a little problematic.

I've opened a support ticket asking if they have a backup of my site, my guess is no since the cPanel software has a backup program in it. And no, I did not yet have a backup of my site. Definitely my bad. But since it was a bug in the cPanel software that wiped my site out, I'm hoping that they might be able to restore it. It's not like I'm asking them week after week to restore my site.

*sigh*

Comments

oh crap

[tomegatheron.livejournal.com]

Im sorry Wayne. Gl getting it restored.

Re: oh crap

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping. They're checking their backup vault. I'm just going to have to be more careful and proactive in making sure my site is safe.