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Explanation for this week’s adventure.
chris lin posted in Personal, Site Updates on January 15th, 2005

Hello avid readers of my blog. Why you are here, is unknown but last week my host, turnkeyresellers.com, had a server crash on the server I am on. Due to his slow response and poor support, we are now on a new host, hostdaemons.com. My previous host also had the nerve to say he lost all the databases on that server, resulting in a lot of his clients leaving but whatever.

For my blog, my latest backup was last September so I thought I was screwed. BUT, with bloglines.com which indexes and archives the sites that ping a service (such as weblo.gs) and google, I was able to get my blogs back that were lost from Sept to Jan. What I did was this.

  1. Login to bloglines and subscribe my site
  2. Click on my site and select"All items" on the dropbox "Display items within the last"
  3. Bloglines show an excerpt of all your blogs but you just what to know the blog date.
  4. Go to google.com and enter this in your search engine "inurl:sitename.com/archives/(year)/(month)/(date)
  5. If you don't have nice permalinks, it's usually inurl:sitename.com/url/to/wp/index.php?p=# where # is the id of your blog. In that case, start with 1 and move up.
  6. In the search results, click on the cache results and their's your blog post for that day :D

Tedious as hell but I wanted my blogs. I didn't do comments cause I didn't want to waste that much time recovering my blog.

Shoot, now I gotta clean up this mess my host left. If you have any questions, IM me or email me. If I don't reply in the IM, please email me. And I will be scripting a database of all my hostee's information (u/p/email) since I am sick of asking you guys so I'll update you guys on that.

NOTICE: If your site doesn't work and I haven't told you anything about closing your account, message me since I can't remember everyone's account and I probably forgot you. Sorry.

8 Responses to 'Explanation for this week’s adventure.'

  1. 1Bryan Villarinpersonal avatar
    January 17th, 2005 at 11:06 am

    Dude, sorry to hear about that whole mess. I hope your new host keeps things running smoothly from now on. I would’ve IMed you on a few occassions, but I didn’t want to annoy you. :lol: ;)


  2. 2Riapersonal avatar
    January 17th, 2005 at 7:28 pm

    Ouch. You did a lot of work to get the site back. Glad to have you back! Note to self: backup files!


  3. 3Kittypersonal avatar
    January 18th, 2005 at 2:28 am

    wow, poor you.. glad your site’s back up though :)


  4. 4Jonathanpersonal avatar
    January 18th, 2005 at 9:52 am

    Yeah, major bummer about that host failure. If you ever need a new host or are unhappy with this host, you may want to try x-gravity.net or inmotionhosting. I personally use x-gravity, but I’ve used inmotion for several company suggestions. I hope you are happy with your new host :)


  5. 5Kimberlypersonal avatar
    January 18th, 2005 at 1:33 pm

    Selfish personal question: are the subdomains permanently gone?


  6. 6cLinpersonal avatar
    January 18th, 2005 at 5:39 pm

    No, I have all your subdomain files. IM me and I’ll upload them otherwise I figured you don’t want them.


  7. 7Sarahpersonal avatar
    January 18th, 2005 at 7:11 pm

    Whoa, that’s a lot of work to get it back…and what’s with all the server crashes lately? *knock on wood*


  8. 8Disciplinzpersonal avatar
    January 21st, 2005 at 3:59 pm

    wow there something i didn’t know about google


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