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Damn Justin, that sucks. My condolences. Getting hacked is never cool but losing your stuff is even worse. I hope you can piece it back together somehow, I enjoyed your blog a lot.

The only way I have found to get my stuff back, unless you have a local back-up, is to search Google and use the cached pages to get the content back. Was not hacked or on the same host but, had gone through something similar a while back.

Great idea Schalk!

Recent Microsoft/Danger fiasco showed that you can't rely on 3rd parties to backup your data. I can understand how ordinary users can fall into this trap, but a developer? Hopefully you'll learn from it.

Well I have the text from my posts at least but since it was wordpress I lost basically all my functionality since I can't get to the database.
It just bugs me because the blog was actually helping new programmers (one of my goals) and now it's gone... so all that work I put into the SEO side of it is a waste since Google hates blank pages and dead links =[

I do plan to return to blogging but I just don't have the drive to redo everything right now. My last post was about reaching 500 legitimate comments (I read everyone) now my next post will have to be about loosing all those comments, haha.

I will probably do some write ups for one of the Zones while my blog is down.

Condolences. Everyone posting here on DZone should take this as encouragement to back up their blog/data if they're not doing so already. My Wordpress template and DB gets dumped to backup regularly, because I sure as hell don't trust Dreamhost (or anyone else, for that matter) to always honor or even enforce their customer backup policies. Anyway, sorry about your troubles, Justin, and good luck restoring your site.