Sunday, March 11, 2007

Oops!

I seem to have screwed something up when I transfered the blog over to the new host. The comments aren’t working. I’m aware of it and hope to have them up soon. Sorry. 

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Major Suckitude

In case you’re wondering why my blog still doesn’t have the old articles restored, it’s because of a series of Murphy’s Law events that started Friday Morning. My site was down because it was crashing the server for some reason so they shut it off. They turned it back on and I discovered something on the blog page was causing the problem but I couldn’t determine what it was. No one had posted malicious code in a comment. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

So they told me I should move to a better server and plan they had set up. I was running off to San Diego for the weekend, so I saved everything, including the database and determined to deal with it from down there.

I got an email from their tech support telling me how I can move my site, so I followed their instructions only to discover that the move did not automatically move my files. So, fine, I was going to restore it from the database save, except I learned it was corrupted. Not only that but I had to change the DNS, which meant the site would be down for a day regardless of what I did.

On Monday they said they would restore my database. I had set one up in the meantime so my temporary blog would have something to run from. Except they couldn’t find it. It seems it was no longer on the old system because they deleted it. Not only that, but they did not have saves going back to before they deleted it. They only had nightly backups and when I moved the site, their system automatically cleared the space on the old server on Sunday.

Got that? Almost four years of blogging articles down the drain.

Yes, I had backed up my database before, except I never had to restore the files and I discovered the large size of my database made each save unusable because it crashed the save in the middle, before any articles or comments were saved.

My only option is to find some articles on Google cache and copy them into this blog one by one. They have all kinds of formatting problems, but at least that’s an option. I did it for two articles today and I will probably do it for awhile, to get back some of the better stuff I wrote.

But for now, this blog is back to square one. I just have to move forward and not look back, but needless to say, I am not enjoying this.

If you want to help my mood, drop some change in the tip jar to the right. It would be most appreciated.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

I Sure Hope So

If you’re looking for articles before today, they still haven’t been restored. Hopefully that’ll be today.

Needless to say, I am not amused. I saved the database on Friday, but because it was so big, the file was corrupted in the middle. So it’s not usable. They have yet to provide a backup from their tapes. But I am hoping that will be in the morning sometime.

I will probably stick with this look, but I will be modifying it some more. 

Monday, December 18, 2006

What the Hell?

Yes, I’m still waiting to get my files restored. But I decided I might as well do a redesign. I didn’t like the old layout, so I will probably be tinkering with the look for a week or two in my spare time.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Sorry for the Mess

This is a sample entry. You can delete it from your Control Panel.

Sorry for the Mess

I had to move to a new server this weekend.

Either I was a victim of my own success and the blog bandwidth was bombing the server, or something else was going on, but I upgraded to a better server and plan and am busy restoring everything. We should be back to normal Sunday night sometime. The DNS hasn’t replicated yet, so you may not even see this message.

UPDATE: It gets better, the backup I did of the database is corrupted. I was in San Diego this weekend and just got back, so I was going to fix everything from the backup I did. Oops.

We’ll see if my host has a save. I won’t know until tomorrow.