Skip to content

My host cracked and my blog lost

June 14, 2009 by Amr

On the 8th of June, at 1am GMT I received an e-mail from my blog host, VAServ, announcing that they were cracked around 7pm GMT on the 7th of June. They were cracked through a vulnerability in HyperVM software (a software for managing vps instances across servers).

As a result, I lost 100% of my data. Here is exactly what happened.

I was at work, and I immediately checked my blog and found it to be working. By the time I got home, it was no longer accessible. That was strange, because VAServ e-mail indicated that they brought down most of their VPS nodes which had been cracked.

I sent an e-mail asking about why it's has been taken down now, they said that they are investigating it. I didn't understand, because I had just accessed the VPS few hours earlier and it was fine.

2 days later, they reported that that node had 100% data loss. But sorry, that can't be true, because again, I had accessed it myself and it didn't have any problems.

I wasn't taking regular backups of the blog. Lesson learned the hardway. Apologies for everyone whose comments were lost.

On the good side, I was able to recover the majority of the blog. This blog was the launchpad for many Drupal patches, and for the purposes of development I had a not-very-outdated copy running on my laptop!

Comments

viagra

December 29, 2009 by Anonymous, 30 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 2738

Hello. Great job. I did not expect this on a Wednesday. This is a great story. Thanks!

rH3uYcBX

Online Stock Trading

January 12, 2010 by Anonymous, 28 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 2995

There's good info here. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog. Keep up the good work mate!

Hey

January 15, 2010 by Anonymous, 28 weeks 1 day ago
Comment id: 3048

whats up!, im new here. This Websites amazing, i've learned loads from here already!

Thanx

January 15, 2010 by Anonymous, 28 weeks 1 day ago
Comment id: 3057

It was extremely interesting for me to read this blog. Thanks for it. I like such themes and anything that is connected to them. I definitely want to read a bit more on that blog soon.

Viagra

January 23, 2010 by Anonymous, 27 weeks 10 hours ago
Comment id: 3153

You are a very smart person!

rH3uYcBX

how to download redtube video

January 25, 2010 by Anonymous, 26 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 3161

I see a lot of good work here, keep us posting

online stock trading VomGroonizili Monsengasuawn

February 1, 2010 by Anonymous, 25 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 3191

I don’t usually reply to posts but I will in this case, great info...I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work!

Manumitted Wp Themes

February 2, 2010 by Anonymous, 25 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 3193

Good brief and this fill someone in on helped me alot in my college assignement. Thank you for your information.

Faint Despatch

February 7, 2010 by Anonymous, 24 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 3231

Opulently I to but I dream the collection should prepare more info then it has.

Some infos about a crime forum

March 9, 2010 by Anonymous, 20 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 3457

Hello,

We want to inform you about the illegal german carding forum "http://carders.cc".
You can buy there stolen creditcards, drugs, weapons, child porn and all other things what you want.

Our local police stations seems to be too stupid to stop them.
Please write abuses to the Domainregistrar, to the hoster and so an, please help us!

Here are some screenshots which proofs my words!
http://yfrog.com/5bdirtymoneyp
http://yfrog.com/1fdrugs2p
http://yfrog.com/1ndrugs1p
http://yfrog.com/2odrugs3p
http://yfrog.com/jbfraudp
http://yfrog.com/esfraud2p

Here is again the link to this crimeforum: http://www.carders.cc
Please help us to stop them, spread this news everywhere!

We need to stop the crime in this world, fight with us for a better world without internet crime!

Thank you!

Завидую

March 17, 2010 by Anonymous, 19 weeks 3 days ago
Comment id: 3497

Могу предложить Вам посетить сайт, на котором есть много статей на интересующую Вас тему.
Я считаю, что Вы не правы. Могу это доказать.
Жаль, что сейчас не могу высказаться - опаздываю на встречу. Вернусь - обязательно выскажу своё мнение.
Сожалею, что ничем не могу помочь. Надеюсь, Вы найдёте верное решение.
модный ты=)))))

Question for you

March 22, 2010 by Anonymous, 18 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 3543

Hey there, I'm wondering about Landing Page Optimization and whether you have any experience with this. I'm starting a project and need to figure this out pretty quick. I have read many of your posts and have found them to be very good and helpful. The detail is most appreciated.

I better, perhaps, shall keep silent

April 25, 2010 by Anonymous, 14 weeks 2 hours ago
Comment id: 3683

Absolutely casual concurrence

Tema

April 26, 2010 by Anonymous, 13 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 3689

All it certainly is interesting but how to live further?

sunglass armani

May 22, 2010 by Anonymous, 10 weeks 1 day ago
Comment id: 3852

Yes... i also really like to visit new place, your idea is good.

Christian Louboutin

June 8, 2010 by Anonymous, 7 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 3884

great information you write it very clean. I am very lucky to get this tips from you.

Soccer clothing

June 12, 2010 by Anonymous, 7 weeks 5 hours ago
Comment id: 3890

Are you at facebook?Wanted to digg you but couldn't

Link is down?

June 18, 2010 by Anonymous, 6 weeks 2 days ago
Comment id: 3899

Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it seems to be offline... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please answer to my post if you do!

I would appreciate if a staff member here at amrmostafa.org could post it.

Thanks,
Alex

Hi everyone

June 26, 2010 by Anonymous, 5 weeks 17 hours ago
Comment id: 3958

Did you guys know that Twilight eclips has leaked...
see here http://secretshack.info/twilight-eclipse/

Hi everybody

June 26, 2010 by Anonymous, 5 weeks 16 hours ago
Comment id: 3959

Did you guys nkow that Twilight eclipse has leaked...
see here http://secretshack.info/twilight-eclipse/

Magnificent idea

July 25, 2010 by Anonymous, 1 week 2 hours ago
Comment id: 4071

I am sorry, that has interfered... I understand this question. Let's discuss.

Post new comment

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

AdaptiveThemes