Bullet Dodged

Bloggers are occasionally reminded to back-up their databases. I now know why. Last week my site just kinda stopped working. I emailed and called my hosting company several times and was simply told that a “sysadmin is working on this.” Today they finally admitted that a hard drive on the server that hosts my database–five years worth of content–was corrupted. In other words, they lost everything. But the blog gods were smiling on me. I backed-up my data about a month ago and was able to restore all the tables. So, although it’s missing a few posts, Public Realm is back to it’s regulary scheduled bi-monthly updates.

April 26th, 2005