So the other day I’m thinking I want to tinker around on my website a little and I go to log on and I get a REALLY angry looking red screen from Google warning me not to go anywhere near my own site or risk getting a virus. Apparently some loser with nothing better to do, who probably just sits home and plays video games all day, with the sound turned up full blast so the entire neighborhood can hear them, hacked my site. Why you’d bother with my site I have no idea.
So I recall the post I read (and bookmarked just in case!) on The Phoenix Real Estate Guy’s site recently about what he did when his site was hacked. He recommended Sucuri (affiliate link) to clean up the site so I went there. $90 not only to clean up the site but they then monitor it every 6 hours for a year! I decide this sounds like an excellent deal, considering the amount of time it would have probably taken me otherwise to figure out how to do it on my own – plus they’re going to keep a close eye on it year round.
It was fairly late in the evening so I assumed I wouldn’t hear anything until the next day during regular business hours. Nope! I swear, I think I blinked and I had an email telling me the site was clean. It was easily less than an hour and my site was completely free of malware.
Except then I tried to change all my passwords like they recommended and I messed something up with my database and my site went kablooey.
I HAD hosting through Go Daddy. I called them on the phone, I emailed them and nothing. Could NOT get the help I needed to figure out what I had done wrong with the passwords.
So then I decided to check out hostgator.com (affiliate link) and couldn’t be happier. They have online chat where they answered my questions RIGHT AWAY. And when I requested their FREE website transfer service within a day my website is back up and running.
Could not be more pleased with these two companies!
