Over the weekend my hosting provider mailed me to say that the server my hosting was on had failed and some data was lost. Unfortunately they ended the rather brief e-mail with a blanket statement of ’some accounts had to be reset so simply upload your website…’. To say I’m not at all impressed would be an understatement!

It’s taken several hours to re-upload it and it’s likely to be a couple more to ensure it’s all back as it should be. No content has been lost as I keep a backup of everything uploaded. Unfortunately I have lost some of the site’s configuration settings (such as the gallery and the forum integration) as I didn’t have a recent copy of the mySQL DB content.