After Sheila’s passing, I was an emotional mess, I had the good sense to arrange for two of my lovely grandchildren to come stay with me, Charlene (15)

charlene at 15

and John (10)

John at 10

Without them I would probably have been joining Sheila within three months,

Having my grandchildren to look after (or were they looking after me?) Parental mode kicked in and life started rebuilding, with what focus I could muster being directed toward school life and parental guidance for the children.

The business killer came in May of 2007 when my main hosting company was attacked and the server and backup were destroyed. My hosting business disappeared along with all my own sites. Total loss of business.

One huge lesson learned ALWAYS keep a current backup of your server away from the host.

Sods law dictates!

The same week my hard drive also packed in (now partial data recovered) but thankfully not before I managed to upload some (but incomplete) parts of my own sites back to a new server, I lost all but two of my hosting customers (only to be expected) In my grief depressed state; I had neglected my business.

Thankfully, as I had been doing some things right cash was not a real problem, as I was still deep in depression work on resurrecting the business was slow.

The recovery starts… Part 3 to follow.