Someone accessed my hosting account and deleted my dev site. My hosting provider doesn’t have any backups. Is there a third party archivist that has my pages laid out so that I may re-create what I had spent almost 500 hours on? I know I’m an idiot. I’m already kicking myself for this. Hoping I can salvage some time. Thanks in advance.
Posted Aug 28, 2019, 12:50 AM UTC
Take it as a lesson! Automated backups are your friend...
Also, source control. Even if you're working alone, there are huge benefits to using source control.
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You have $50,000 - $100,000 (500 hours) invested into this website, and you aren't using multiple backups? That's an expensive lesson. Would be like not having insurance on your house
The good news is that rebuilding always takes a fraction of the time that the initial build took. But dude, look into source control, saving local copies of your files, and online backup. Use all of them frequently so this doesn't happen again
If it not not on archive.org or a Google search result cache - you're out of luck. Also, now would be a good time to familiarize yourself with version control i.e., Git
You dont have a version saved locally in something like netbeans?
You sir are FUKKED
https://archive.org/web/ if you're lucky.
But dude. How do you not have any backups of your site at all? Even if you're not using version control with Git (which you absolutely should) then you should at least have manual backups.