“If it matters to anyone who decides to visit an obscure little blog called WinExtra you will notice that all my posts from June 20th onward are missing courtesy of my hosting company apparently misplacing them during a server transfer.”
right now I am so fucking mad I could spit - not only has this affected the blog(s) but also the WinExtra forums. I cxan only hope that somehow they get this fixed ... I need a coffee ..... - Steven Hodson
Wow, Stephen, that really sucks. They should be all over trying to fix the problem if they're at all reasonable. Good luck! - Voyagerfan5761
I wondered about that Steven. Saw all the FF comments re: the podcast and was going to check it out. But couldn't land on the page. - Hutch Carpenter
Can they at least confirm that they are recoverable? That's like bush league stuff right there. Get it restored and get out as soon as you can. - Mark Trapp
Please name that hosting company. I'm going to get around to starting a new blog one of these days and am looking for a good host. - AJ Kohn
@Voyagerfan .. right now I can tell they are working on the email end of it because I am being flooded with what is now dupes of my email for the past two weeks .. maybe I should get something stronger to put in this coffee. - Steven Hodson
wow, that is awful. :( When things are back if you're running wordpress you should try the plugin that mails you backups of your db. I have them sent to a gmail account and it's good peace of mind. - felix
@Hutch sorry about that ... and people wonder why I get cranky :) - Steven Hodson
Damn, Steven. That is horrible. I'm with AJ. I wanna know who this is. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
to be fair they have been good to me in the past moving me from a shared server setup to a new cluster server setup with no extra fees being charged. But since that point I have been having problems on and off. Hopefully they will be able to get this all fixed up and things will go back to normal. @Mark as much as I might like to move hosts it is something I can't afford at this point. - Steven Hodson
@Susan I don't have those kind of financial resources to just up an switch unfortunately. In addition to the above they did send out an email notifying me of the transfer and not to be posting anything for a period of time as it might get lost ROFL .. would be nice if they wouldn't lose what I've already posted ... so I sit here with fingers crossed .. this is going to be a long day - Steven Hodson
wow that sucks steven - hope they can fix. - MG Siegler
This is why I run a cron job that emails a MySQL and WP backup to one of my gmail accounts every night. Good luck with the recovery! - Bill Sodeman via fftogo
wow, that's really cool! Can they do that to mine :p - Rob Diana
Blog Backup Online dot com. I'm just saying. - Cyndy
Oh wow. Sorry to hear that Steven, that's seriously uncool! I'd be going over the contract fine print right about now. - J. Phil
Cyndy - is this blogbackuponline place legit? - J. Phil
J. Phil Very legit. I will vouch for them personally... it's a service from Techrigy, which also produces SM2. - Cyndy
Bad news, that explains why the feed was showing content from months ago. Hope you get it fixed. - Duncan Riley
@Duncan well I seem to have returned from the time warp I found myself in :) the hosting company said the migration was for the most part completed today with some DB's still to move but everything should finally be back to normal (as normal as that can be around here :) ). - Steven Hodson
@Christian - funnily enough that was my biggest concern over the whole incident. Was more pissed that other bloggers could be affected by this than anything else - Steven Hodson
