Cristiano on Tech/Life Site5 Deleted This Blog
Dec
12
My service provider (Site5) interpreted my technical support query incorrectly and promptly deleted my entire blog. The database was still up so that was fine, but I lost some files that I upload plus my custom build theme. It will take a while to get it all up again. Stay tuned.
[...] So, I had a bit of a scare this morning as Site5 (my hosting provider) had understood my technical request wrong and had bluntly deleted my blog, including the files. Lucky for me the database was still there, and I could recover most of the file I uploaded to Wordpress from my old IbbyDibby install that was still present on that server. I did lose my theme though so I spend most of my day getting it back to work again. It seems like I got most of it back, including Polyglot (bilingual blogging) and some other things. Still need to install some stuff though (OpenID support and hAvatar) and fix some minor bugs in the theme (see the tags widget on the right). This just learned me to also make backups of stuff I put on my service provider. [...]