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My highly ranked(SEO-wise) website went down for a few months; can I easily recover my spot back or not worth it?

I'm a pro web dev(and former seo guy) and had a very old ecommerce site aimed at some obscure items and was top for all domain/keywords related to it(not alot of competition either). Did the SEO myself 10+ years ago and the high search engine rankings are the only driver of traffic. Brought in about $200-400 a month profit but shut down after server crashed 5 months ago and backups got wiped(long story).

My highly ranked site has obviously been wiped from results based on recent searches.

Is it worth rebuilding asap and should I expect to see my search engine rank recover reasonably fast?

OR is it pretty much toast and I'm starting from scratch in search engine rankings? I'm in no rush to restart it.

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