wow my sites are all messed up, they took cpannel offline , and all the public_html directories are gone , wtf are they doing ? they better have a backup
No offense, but Hosts have
nothing to do with back ups. (unless they clearly state) It is the client's responsibility to backup their files, not the hosts. I do not know how many times i have to clearly state this.
Someone hacking and deleting all your files, that is kind of inevitable (anything is hackable). Sure there are security measures to prevent it of course (maybe alibaba did not have it, who can say for sure) but it is like having hardware malfunction, say a harddrive crashes. How is that alibaba's fault? Faulty hardware? That is no one's fault, sometimes you cannot even detect when harddrives or hardware will fail.
So no matter what host you are with EVEN if they have external backups, etc.
BACK UP YOUR OWN FILES
Either do it locally on the same server (which in this case you all are SOL b/c they deleted everything) or download it to your computer or to say box.net. Anywhere! Just backup even if its a month old, better than nothing!!!
(don't mean to sound mean or offend anyone, it is just the truth. Take this as a lesson from the future and learn from your and other people's mistakes!)
Good Luck to everyone