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!
Twitter: psychicgeek
Gotta love the “I just exploded my blog” palpitations, don’t you?
witchypoo’s last blog post..Scatological Search Terms
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?
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?
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!
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!
Bobby Revell’s last blog post..The Blood River Flesh Hunter
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!
Nicole Price’s last blog post..Alternatives To Traditional Gas Guzzlers
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!
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.
Rich’s last blog post..WOW – look at this!
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!
That’s so funny Andy.
I really *feel* for you, but you must stop changing things around
Sharon’s last blog post..Be Diva.licious: How to Get in Touch with Your Inner Diva
sharon: hehe, I know! I’ve learned my lesson (maybe)
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
Vontraplexium´s last blog post..Gixen is a great ebay sniping facility