{"id":467,"date":"2005-12-05T10:52:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=467"},"modified":"2005-12-08T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T22:45:11","slug":"admin-note-now-im-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Admin Note: Now I’m Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend my host’s server died and with it my website. So of course they had to bring another server online and restore from backup. Fortunately, I backed up my files right before the crash (and navigated the restoration process with the help of Turtle Meat’s<\/a> “Fragments” how-to webpage – thanks, mon). I don’t think I lost any blog entries, but I did lose comments on a recent entry about Umbria<\/a> tracking my posts.<\/p>\n

The gist of that lost conversation was that Umbria had previously gotten the attention of a few of us (I knew they sounded familiar) back in June when BusinessWeek’s Stephen Baker posted a Blogspotting entry<\/a> about them.<\/p>\n

Which brings me back to the current circumstances. Having been the on-again\/off-again target of amateur hacks looking to cut their teeth on outdated and vulnerable code, it reminds me that should a website say something a corporate entity doesn’t like (e.g. “Burger King’s got the worst onion rings I’ve ever had”), they can’t even employ the services of a hacker to wipe files (not that a corporation would ever<\/em> do anything illegal). Because assuming, say, I don’t back them up, and assuming my host didn’t back them up, there’s a good chance some netbot has already archived my post. In fact, that was going to be an option in the event I’d lost more than I did.<\/p>\n

So two lessons (re)learned. First, back up your files frequently. Second, once it’s posted there’s no erasing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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