I can’t believe what I just did….. I mistakenly restored an old backup of fiddyp… grrrrr.
I have just moved to a dedicated server and its really helped the load times, I got everything working and then did a backup. “sweet” thought I…. let’s set up a scheduled backup… two wrong clicks later and I realise that it’s restoring the old back up. dammnit all to hell on a bicycle!!!!
Luckily, I managed to retrieve the last two posts I made by copying the source of the feed in google feedreader, amazingly, that still held the last two posts I made. Shame I missed the comments though, I’ll have to see if I can find a list of the entries of the Euromillions rollover contest in a history somewhere and get it from offline mode….
silly silly me!
edit: I just realised that I can reconstruct the comments from my email notifications. I just got all the entries back on the euromillions contest post from a page view in the history, i’ll put the remainder up when I get over my heart attack!
newedit: I tried to change this hosting to exclusive IP on a dedicated server and I lost another couple of comments (sorry Sharon). I have had the most frustrating day playing with this server. I feel an indepth rant coming!….
even newer edit: I think I’m changing too many things and not giving it time to work! I am now going to leave the nameservers as they are, leave the IP of the hosting the same and just sit back and wait for a few days for everything to settle. sorry for any interuptions to normal service.. I’m trying to get everything up and secure on a fast host so I can get my new plans in to gear and not worry about bandwidth affecting download times and other schtuff..
seeya soon!
March 12th, 2008 on 12:43 am
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Gotta love the “I just exploded my blog” palpitations, don’t you?
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March 12th, 2008 on 1:26 am
witchypoo: I was in a daydream and wondered why the backup screen looked different. it must have been when I went to restore it last time and didn’t click through to the final page so when I viewed the backup page, it went back to the last page I had seen… grrrr! I had a wicked good post about upcoming contests in the drafts too. how poo! at least I got back the euromillions contest entries! have you entered yet?
March 12th, 2008 on 10:56 am
Worst nightmare ever! Oh my!
I also thought about the comment notifications before I read your edit.
Everything looks normal now, apart some comments missing probably. Right?
March 12th, 2008 on 12:55 pm
mira: for some reason, I didn’t get the email notifications. Luckily, only 1 post was affected. guess I’ll have to live with it!
March 13th, 2008 on 4:36 am
I’m so sorry you have to go through this Andy! It will be nice to see your awesome template back in gear soon! I’ve thought about moving to a dedicated server but I don’t know what I’m doing…so I’ll stay where I’m at!
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March 13th, 2008 on 8:33 am
The biggest crisis in my life is when my computer doesn’t work. This is so much BIGGER than that. Good luck! I hope you get out of this alive and kicking!
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March 13th, 2008 on 11:29 am
bobby: for some reason, having an alias of the .com is making this website go funny. I took off the alias and now I can view this site. I have no idea why! I thought having a dedicated server would be cool!
nicole: thanks for your kind words! I am tearing my hair out!
March 13th, 2008 on 2:47 pm
Nightmare scenario!
Hang in there Andy, that which doesn’t kill makes us stronger etc etc………..
There’s bound to be a positive to be had out of this experieince somewhhere, even if it takes a while to show itself.
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March 13th, 2008 on 2:52 pm
Rich: thanks mate, at least you are able to leave a comment and a notification got sent out. I really think I messed things up because of not being patient enough. I kept changing things and didn’t disable my browser cache so i was always seeing wrong things!
I have learned an awful lot about plesk and telnet in the past day though!
March 14th, 2008 on 4:05 am
That’s so funny Andy.
I really *feel* for you, but you must stop changing things around
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March 14th, 2008 on 2:39 pm
sharon: hehe, I know! I’ve learned my lesson (maybe)
April 21st, 2009 on 10:40 pm
I just dont get why people dont use a back up service. I just back it up themselves?!? Surely its just a drag and drop thing right? is wordpress more comlicated than that? I wrote this about servers the other day, i hope it is of use!
The pros and cons of a dedicated server
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