I started a new forum a while back when I thought I could host a game making competition. The competition proved to be a bit too much for me, and I sandbagged the idea. During the ordeal, my new, self-hosted forum got attacked by spam mail. As a result, I believe my website got hacked.
In the end, I was able to reclaim what is rightfully mine. There were a few casualties, however.
I had to delete some FTP accounts. I had to delete the support email account. I had to delete the entire blog portion of the site, and restore a backup from September 2012.
Whilst going through all of that, I found out my old forum was about to be lost. Luckily, at the last minute, I was able to save it, as well. Forumer.com was acquired by Yuku.com so I had to migrate the forum over to the new site. I think if I had missed it by one more day, I would have lost it. It was a close call.
This is what I get for neglecting my website over the winter.
HayMan Quarterly will continue to be my hobby website. I would like to commercialize and make a little money from the site, but I haven’t figured out how quite yet. Still trying to find my niche. So in the mean time, see you on facebook.
—HayManMarc
