You never think your site is going to gt hacked until it does. This has even happened to us as recently as last month. What were the signs?
- Emails starting asking for passwords.
- Google sent us reminders of pages not resolving.
- Clients weren
After further investigation of the servers it was found that someone malicious had taken down both our sites. Why, no one knows but thanks to contingencies and redundancies we have in place such as regular site backups, hidden domains we could redirect users to until site restoration and regular full backups, disruption was relatively minimal and inexpensive.
As part of our development and maintenance contracts we take a once a month backup of client sites to ensure that if anything happens, restoration is relatively quick and simple. Your site is not a set and forget thing