When we went down on Saturday, we weren't even able to get the box to boot. It took several hours on a virtual console and some (paid) specialists to get at least SSH to run again. After that, the folks from Jolt took over and repaired what was to repair. I still notice some glitches like being unable to reply to some postings in the forums, but hopefully we can correct this as well.

My sincere thanks go out to the folks at easyservermanagement.com - they did a lot more than they were paid for. And to the Jolt team: they really worked hard to get things up and running from the point where they were able to get into the box.

We haven't lost any information like other newssites (some lost the complete content of their forums). And we had a backup of everything not older than a week on a second box - so we could have restored everything or almost everything. Well, I am happy we are back, I am happy you are back and I am happy that the hackers will have all the fleas on their balls I wished them onto during the last 36 hours :-)