Were you directed here from Google or simply passing by to check out an old article you read previously only to find that it isn’t here anymore? Don’t worry you’re not imagining things, they were here and are gone now. Here is why:

Al my sites (12 in total) was hosted by a local hosting company who was basically reselling American hosting at affordable prices. That hosting solution went well for longer than 2 years, but then the server got hacked. This is also a pretty normal thing to happen. I’ve seen it before and I’m sure I will see it again.

The problem came in when the American hosting company didn’t do backups like they were supposed to and to make a long story short lost 3 months of my data across all my sites.

I moved my sites over to Media Temple and so far it’s running really well, the service is great and they have ridiculous amounts of help files in their online knowledge base.

I also didn’t have any backups of the missing posts, so I guess they are gone. The good news is that I’m not planning to stop writing on the blog, so I’m sure that those articles will soon be a distant memory, dwarfed by the awesome new articles on blog.codeninja.co.za