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siteground

09 Tuesday Apr 2019

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Fingers crossed! Spent the last couple of hours sorting out new hosting for my websites. After the HostGator fiasco when I was hacked, and after paying 800 euros for a manual data base cleaning, HG finally unblocked my websites. Except they are all a mess now, with content missing and links not working.

Enter SiteGround. I hope they will be better. I certainly felt like the guy on their chat line today was very helpful. Anyhow, it’s done. SG says they will transfer everything from HG over the next 24 hours and by tomorrow everything should be up and running properly. Whether all my content makes it is another matter. AND… still need to get a refund from HG as I am paid up with them until June 2021. It’s been a hellish month and I don’t even want to think about how much business I have lost by being offline. But hey… onwards!

spiraling down down down

15 Friday Mar 2019

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Since ALL my websites were hacked on Wednesday (well, in truth they were hacked ten days ago, but I just found about it Wednesday when HostGator blocked them) I have been in a state of spiraling down… so down… because I don’t know what the hell I can do. At first my friend David came to the rescue and found a couple of dodgy things that he removed, and then I got BH to “whitelist” my sites again. But the next day it was the same nightmare and I am now almost hysterical.

It looks like I have lost a lot of content already, especially photos, and I don’t know how to make things right. And of course each day my sites are offline, I am losing money as nobody can find my tours. I get mixed advice from each help source I ask, and I honestly don’t know what to do next. My site has been taken over and the hackers are using them to run other sites, thereby overusing the CPU. If I don’t get this fixed soon my server with permanently block me. HELP???