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That sounds like some pretty scary stuff! If I were you, I would do everything possible to stay in this challenge though. If you need any help, I know there are a ton of people here that would love to assist you in any way they can. Good luck!

I would have liked to offer some advice but unfortunately can only offer moral support. Will ask my techie hubby to have a look at you post though and see whether he could suggest something.

Maria

I'm gong to be offering moral support as well.  Good lucky and I hope that the issues get resolved so you don't have to drop out.

I'm so sorry to hear that. I wish I was more helpful with technology :-( 

I hope it all works out. Good luck!

Sorry to hear about the hosting problems Edward. If you head over to google and view the cache for each post, you could at least copy all the content and rebuild the site? Not an easy job if you have a lot of posts, but I think your site was newer so it might not be too bad?

For example, this search… http://webcache.googleusercont…..nd-adsense

Were you hacked? Because I was hacked and my sites were ALL DOWN.  NOT FUN.  I did recover though.  What you need to do is log into you cPanel and take a look at a couple of your PHP files to look for inserted codes.  When you get them out you'll come back. 

If you can stay in do so but if you can't to work something out sometimes that the best. Wishing you well. 

Edward Antrobus said:

Thanks everyone for the encouragement. If I do wind up dropping out of the challenge, I will probably wind up joining again in the future.

The host did confirm today that the datacenter they are using shut them down.  They said something about working to try to get the datacenter to turn them back on, but I don't know if the data will still be there if they do.

MoneyInfant, Thanks for the link. I had automated backups in place, but apparently they don't do much good if you don't download them. :) That may just be worth the money.

Tom, that is a good idea, and I did think of it today at work. How long would those cache's exist? All that copying and pasting from a laptop while at the library is going to be… interesting.

Jon, Unfortunately, the Wayback Machine hasn't archived my site yet.

Sandy, not hacked. The entire hosting service I use got shut off by their datacenter. So no CPanel. :(

I used to have the automated backups as well, but like you said it doesn't help if you don't download them.  That's what made me decide to just outsource it.

Edward,

I am guessing that you have spoken to the hosting company about signing over the data to you?  Then you could possibly try contacting the datacenter directly, explain the situation and see if there is anything that could be resolved…  It might take a minute to get everything sorted out and that you are the "owner" of those site just trying to recover his data and hard work from a hosting company with bad business practices…

Edward Antrobus said:

I may be out of the running. My sites went down yesterday and STILL aren't up. Admins have been unresponsive, also it is down that the host is having a dispute with the datacenter and it is unknown if they are getting shut down. If that happened, my data is gone. I have up to date backups of If You Can Read, but apparently I never turned on the automatic download feature for Edward Antrobus database backups. I do have a recent backup of the actual files for EA and of the custom theme for If You Can Read, but absolutely nothing for SEAM Publishing.

So it's possible that the only site I can recover is the one I've been the least interested in lately. I may be out of the running for Yakezie.

Indeed, this is really a matter of concern, both for your site which is down and you're unsure about your data and for the challenge. Don't worry, first look into the fact that you site keeps running, ask your hosting company to help your transfer your server immediately without having any downtime. If all goes well, I guess you will still be in the context. Good luck to you.