It is important to stay current with the status of your website. Last month mine was attacked and heavily bruised. Fortunately my wonderful server, Katart Graphics, did a great job of resetting this site and getting things back up and running. They really know what they are doing and they get after it, call them for your service!
Here are a couple of rules to protect your site(s).
1. Watch your site! To my shame it took Katart to contact me about the problem on my site. I was not aware of the trouble until they called me.
2. Back up your work. Make sure your server keeps your site backed up and also make sure YOU keep articles in your computer’s folders.
3. Ask others to sign up for RSS and send your articles around through twitter and facebook.
4. When your system goes down. Get after fixing it.
Pretty simple.