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Well .. I’m ashamed to see how long it’s been since I last posted here :( Not that I haven’t thought about it almost daily for the last few weeks, but for some reason I just couldn’t wrap my head around WHAT to write about.. so I’ve ended up procrastinating away more and more time.

Emergency Planning
Finally, it’s HERE! Yes, Paul Smithson and the gang over at XSite Pro have finally released the much anticipated XSite Pro Version 2, and let me tell you, the new version really ROCKS! I think it’s safe to say now that I’ve been beta testing V2 for several months now, and the changes and improvements and features that I’ve seen added in, changed and revamped are amazing.
Seeing the message “This Website Has Been Suspended” is definitely my worst nightmare come true, as I’m sure it is for every other website owner out there, but that is exactly what I faced when I arrived online Saturday morning.
Friday night at about 11:00 pm, I’d been working behind the scenes with another WordPress theme. Unfortunately for me, it seems there may be a problem with the theme itself. What occurred was a major server overload, and following that, a DDOS attack. I’ve talked before about the dangers of 3rd party plugins, and blog themes are in this category too.







