The Site, WTF - Written by trench on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 20:38 - 20 Comments

Regular Wordpress Backups a Must!

Let me be the first to tell you that it wasn’t easy getting this site back up and running at all. It all started with my former hosting service closing down my site due to bandwidth issues. Apparently, the site was receiving too much traffic and disrupting other sites hosted on the same server.

It got worse when my former web host screwed me over and gave me a corrupt SQL database. I asked three times and they gave me alot of run around. I tried uploading the latest database when they finally provided it to me, but in the end I had to use the backup I made for myself in mid-July. The database provided was just no good. After this experience, I was glad that I made so many backups on my own. It saved my site!

As for 7milesdown.com itself, well its lost a ton of traffic, some good posts, and some entrecard drops, but I hope everyone will show a little love and support and help me get this blog off its feet again. I have most of the files for my custom template, but I’ll mess with that over the weekend. Right now I just want to savor the fact that my site is live again.

Anyway to all my friends throughout the blogsphere, please spread the word that I am back. I have a couple movie reviews to do including the new “MUMMY” movie which I’m attending the premiere of tonight and I’m hoping to share some of my experiences with moving to a new host.

Update: I think my buddy at www.asceticmonk.com needs to take a look into a new host too. Thats the second time in two months I’ve seen his bandwidth exceeded. ouch!

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Hi there,

Stumbled upon your site while searching the web and I find it really cool! Keep it up!

Regards,
Christoff

Christoffs last blog post..Sungardens Carousel Cycle Classic
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Comment by Christoff on August 9, 2008 at 7:03 am

@courtney - Wasn’t fun at all. Make your backups! haha.
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Comment by trench on August 4, 2008 at 12:05 am

yikes! that doesnt even sound like fun…

courtneys last blog post..the.fonz.needs.a.haircut.
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Comment by courtney on August 3, 2008 at 11:58 pm

found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..
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Comment by Web Site Domains on August 3, 2008 at 2:41 am

@fragileheart - I was wondering why you didn’t have a gravatar up. haha
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Comment by trench on August 1, 2008 at 8:24 pm

ARGH Gravatar joined with Wordpress.com and didn’t even notify anyone to update?!?! And now I can’t even log in to my account! bah humbug!

fragilehearts last blog post..Will this spam thing ever expire?
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Comment by fragileheart on August 1, 2008 at 8:08 pm

@fragileheart - not funny reg! lol. Trying to find some kind of reliable backup plugin. I’ve been trying Lester Chan’s but I’ve run into some problems with access. waiting on this new host to give me a response. I’ll let you guys all know.
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Comment by trench on August 1, 2008 at 8:03 pm

Man, I hope I never get so much traffic that my host does that to me. Who am I kidding, of course I hope that happens to me one day. And of course I’ll have all my backups because I can learn from your mistake =P muahahahaha

I’m just glad you’re back online Chris :)
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Comment by fragileheart on August 1, 2008 at 7:53 pm

@Polaris671 - Was that what it was? Techtonic plates? let me know when you want to move here so I can give you my affiliate ID! haha
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Comment by trench on July 31, 2008 at 8:56 pm

Good to have you back up and running che’lu. The move was inevitable –Tectonic plate movement in the Marianas trench nai!
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Comment by Polaris671 on July 31, 2008 at 8:04 pm