In early November, I found that my website had been attacked by hackers. The entire website was destroyed in a matter of minutes. This single thing literately sent everything into a death spiral.
While working on restoring content to the website, the bandwidth usage from all of the uploads exploded, and my hosting company cut off the website until I moved it to a dedicated server (at a 300% cost increase). I gave in and made the move.
I spent the entire rest of the month of November, and the first half of December doing nothing more than restoring content to the website.
Mid-December rolled around and I was still restoring articles and photographs to the website. I had the website restored to about 60% of what it once was when the hard drive containing my life's work decided to fail.
The hard drive that failed contained two terabytes of photographs spanning the last seven years. It also contained all of my project f
