The plus side to being hacked

So one of my blogs was hacked last week.  By hacked I mean when you loaded up my home page you got a nice black page that said “hacked” and gave an email address.  The hacker was kind enough not to delete my database, but only some restoreable files.  I regained access and got everthing restored in a few hours.

However I am grateful the fact that it happened now and not down the road.  In the past few days I have learned more about securing wordpress then I even knew existed.  I have taken every step I can within reason to secure my work.  I am quite confident that I can still be hacked and there fore have daily database backups that are stored off site as well as weekly complete backups.

I am not goint so say exaclty what I do, as that is like putting up a sign that says “the key is under the mat”.  however there is a great article about it here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

It takes so much stinking work to implement security just so people don’t destroy your hard work.  Such is life, but it makes me hustlel.  

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