The Most Heart Stopping Moment In Blogging
All bloggers have experienced that sickening feeling when you go to your blog and it’s no longer there. In my case it’s usually that my host is just down for a few minutes. However, even though I’ve been doing this for a number of years and I have a back up it makes me sick to my stomach every single time. I always feels as helpless and clueless as if you put a bunch of Ferrari parts in front of me and told me to make a car.
Then I start thinking: What I would do if I have to start all over? Would I do anything differently? What’s wrong? I didn’t even touch it. It’s really one of the most heart wrenching parts of blogging. Usually it just takes a few seconds to rectify the problem, but they are some of the most tense seconds of any bloggers life.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:41 am
haha, it’s horrible isn’t it!!
I remember my first experience on another blog of mine from a few years ago… I still to this day do not have a clue how this happened, obviously I was hacked… but my site was suspended from my host.
Somebody had deleted my blog and made a phishing site!! I was nervous, didn’t know what was going on, obviously like yourself was tense and thought what if i have to start again. This was my first encounter with it, I didn’t realise my host stored backups at the time.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
thank you, I needed a reminder to back up my blog!!
March 12th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
After writing more than 300 posts one day I discovered that my Blog is down….although it was only down for five minutes but those five minutes are the longest of my life.